Volume: 6 Issue: 4
(April 2012)
Keywords:
opinion
ecs
green
paper
missed
opportunities
european
commission
published
11
january
long-awaited
green
paper
european
union
overcome
difficulties
The European Commission published on 11 January its long-awaited Green Paper on how the European Union should overcome difficulties in creating an integrated market for card, internet and mobile payments. Although many within the European financial services industry welcomed the document, and the Commission's push for an integrated market, Zilvinas Bareisis and Gareth Lodge, Senior Analysts at Celent, wonder if the Green Paper is a missed opportunity and examine what was, and was not, in the Green Paper.
Q&A: Marc Brûlé discusses the Canadian Royal Mint's MintChip project
Q&A: FinCEN and virtual currencies: the coming of clarity and ambiguity Q&A: Tony Anderson, Partner at Pinsent Masons, on the new regulator for the UK payments systems sector Q&A: O2's move into mobile commerce Q&A: Sarah Carter, General Manager, Social Business, at Actiance, about banks on social media Interview with Joseph I. Rosenbaum, Partner at Reed Smith LLP, on mobile payments & financial institutions