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My name is Guy. Same Guy. Reissued

My name is Guy. Mr Same Guy. I show up in as a so called private customer off hours, then during working hours as a corporate customer, as a citizen in public sector services and often also as a member of associations, clubs etc. My point is that there are no corporate customers, no private customers, no citizens etc - only human customers or users...

28 December 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

Letter to Santa Claus - reissued

Europe 17.12.2008 Dear Santa, We have been really nice, technology-neutral and hardworking Experts this year and look forward to You bringing us a few presents to play around with in 2009. The first wish is a book - more precisely a handbook. We namely wrote a letter to the EU Commission in July and asked for Equal Treatment of paper and e-invoici...

03 December 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

EU - to save tax payer's money

Snippets from multistake holder meeting “· The European Council called for actions to encourage the uptake of e-invoicing in the EU and the European Parliament issued a resolution which calls for making e-invoicing mandatory in public procurement by 2016. Einvoicing is seen as a potential source of significant savings for European public authoritie...

25 October 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

Mr Same Guy - yesterday, today and tomorrow

1. Mr Same Guy yesterday. In the old days – when we launched PC-banking for SMEs and private customers (1982) at Union Bank of Finland we lived with the false impression that we had private and corporate customers – when we defacto only had human customers – in different roles. As a result the user experience was not similar enough across roles. Th...

08 October 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

e-Invoicing is not a goal in itself

E-invoicing as such does not save the 250bn/year cost. It is an enabler - and that is why the focus should move to the next layers. Experts tend to dig so deep into details that they forget to communicate the big picture. What is the WHY for e-Invoicing? From the EC Expert Group angle the targets are clear: 1. Improve enterprise competitiveness. S...

25 September 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

Final words on authenticity and integrity

A panel discussion at EXPP made it clear that further clarification is needed to make it clear what the EU Commission means with equal treatment of paper and e-invoicing. The VAT directive states that business controls are sufficient. Now people ask what does that mean? What kind of business controls? The best way to fend off scare mongering - is ...

25 September 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

Wasting tax payer's money until 2020?

Most governments are trying hard to save tax payer’s money – and even more importantly trying to push the SME-sector into digital processes and financial administration. But still too many in EU seem too signal that 2020 is a deadline for unstructured invoicing. More here: http://eeiplatform.com/8528/an-overview-56-government-e-invoicing-initiative...

03 July 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

Why are some governments still dragging their feet?

8 reasons for paper and PDF-deadlines NOW: http://eeiplatform.com/8429/8-top-quoted-reasons-mandating-goverment-e-invoicing/?utm_source=E-invoicing+Platform&utm_campaign=5b97b520f0-E-invoicing+Platform+-+Newsletter+wk+26&utm_medium=email An additional major reason for resolute actions is that we need to free up a soo...

27 June 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

EC shaping up

from EEI-platform news: “We also received confirmation from several of our informal sources in Brussels. Some of them said that there are thoughts to make e-invoicing mandatory. Some others have the opinion that the e-invoicing uptake in the EU will get a boost (because of the liberalisation) as from 2013, making additional e-invoicing regulations...

25 June 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

64 percent of enterprises in Finland use e-invoicing

This will grow very fast as: 1. Almost all enterprises have signed up for e-invoicing services (201 000 with banks by end 2011 – 85% of all active). All have not yet started to use the services but will have to as: 2. The state sector and many enterprises have stopped scanning and return paper and PDFs.

21 June 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

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