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  • 2006

    Business Management Europe Issue 179
    Euro de change (SEPA)

  • 2006

    International Payments 2006
    What role can vendors play in bringing banks and corporates together?

  • January 2006 pdf 415k pdf

    Banking & Finance
    Clear2Pay’s CEO Michel Akkermans puts a stake in the ground for 2006
    A personal and global view on the payments industry.
    © Banking & Finance

  • December 2005 pdf 127KB pdf

    Financial-i DnB NOR launches trans-Nordic corporates payment portal

  • November 2005 pdf 116KB pdf

    International Banking Systems
    Clear2Pay adds EFT to broadening product suite - DnB readies payment offering
    Source: www.ibspublishing.com

  • 6 October 2005 pdf 163KB pdf

    Trends Vlaamse betaalsoftware infiltreert in banken wereldwijd

  • 6 September 2005 pdf 195KB pdf

    Sibos Daily News Managed Migration, from cutting cost to strategic advantage

  • Spring 2005 pdf 2MB pdf

    Financial Solutions International
    Wholesale Payments - Time to listen to corporates
    Corporate2Bank solutions and order management is firmly on the bank's agenda.

  • May 2005 pdf 98KB pdf

    Banking Technology Payments Supplement
    Improving corporate payment environments is no waiting game

  • April 2005

    www.australiananthill.com - Q&A
    Michel Akkermans: The man who brought us e-finance
    Belgians are famous for exporting delightful, frivolous products like beer and chocolate. However, leading Belgian entrepreneur Michel Akkermans is responsible for introducing a far more profound product to the world: e-finance.

  • January 2005 pdf NL 733KB pdf

    Banking & Finance Sibos impressies uit eerste hand (dutch version only)

  • Nov 2004 pdf 53KB pdf

    The Capco Institute - Journal of financial transformation Bringing payments together

  • 24-11-2004

    Australian Financial Review Pay master nets $10m in third raising

  • October 2004

    Sibos Daily News Payment hub aimed at outsourcers

  • 15-10-2004

    Securities Industry News LogicaCMG, Clear2Pay Offer Integrated Payments

  • October 2004

    Financial-i
    From cost centre to revenue generator
    The business case for migration to one core payments platform.

  • September 2004

    Elenbi Strategic Review N°7 L'innovation Européenne se porte bien

  • July 2004 pdfNL

    Banking & Finance
    Betalingsverkeer: onderscheiden met een 'commodity'(dutch version only)

  • July 2004 pdf NL

    Banking & Finance
    Een nieuwe generatie betaalsystemen dringt zich op (dutch version only)
    Grote spelers als Visa en MasterCard zien er brood in. Een aantal banken en andere financiële instellingen melden zich al snel als klanten. Clear2Pay lijkt al meteen een schot in de roos op de markt van de software voor betaalsystemen. Het bedrijf pioniert op dit gebied. Geen toeval. De man erachter heet Michel Akkermans. Voor wie hem nog niet (goed genoeg) kent, een kleine introductie. Plus een flinke portie visie.

  • July 2004 pdf NL

    Banking & Finance
    Een nieuwe generatie betaalsystemen dringt zich op (dutch version only)
    Grote spelers als Visa en MasterCard zien er brood in. Een aantal banken en andere financiële instellingen melden zich al snel als klanten. Clear2Pay lijkt al meteen een schot in de roos op de markt van de software voor betaalsystemen. Het bedrijf pioniert op dit gebied. Geen toeval. De man erachter heet Michel Akkermans. Voor wie hem nog niet (goed genoeg) kent, een kleine introductie. Plus een flinke portie visie.

  • Clear2Pay acquires Sienna Technologies articles:

  • 06-04-2004 pdf NL

    De Standaard : Clear2Pay Groeit snel (dutch version only)
    Werkt aan scenario om bijkomende middelen op te halen
    BRUSSEL - Het gaat vooruit bij Clear2Pay, een Belgisch bedrijf dat softwaresystemen ontwikkelt voor vlotter betalingsverkeer. Er staat binnenkort een overname op de agenda en dit jaar mikt het bedrijf op netto noch winst, noch verlies. België is volgens topman Michel Akkermans een van de meest vooraanstaande landen in betaaltechnologie.

  • 01-10-2002 pdf

    European Cross-Border Payments: Is Utopia So Difficult?
    A lot has been written on the subject of European cross-border payments in recent months. Most of this relates to the European fee parity regulation, competing Visa and Mastercard authentication standards, the EBA's ongoing Step 2 initiative and the take-up (or lack of it) of the ECBS' IBAN standard. These issues are interesting. However, it is easy to rush headlong into the small print before grasping the key issue. Payments that were once considered exotic will be seen as a commodity product by consumers. Is it too utopian to imagine two basic cross-border payment scenarios?

  • 20-06-2002 pdf NL pdf FR

    E-Trends Awards: Clear2Pay
    The market for online payments is still wide open. 86% of all B2B transactions are still executed off-line. Independent systems for online payments do exist (ex. PayPal), but most of them are a threat to banks as they make their profit from keeping the money on proprietary accounts and capitalizing on the interest. Jürgen Ingels, at that time Senior Investment Manager at Dexia Ventures, decided there was still room for a pure online payment enabler: a company that delivers the infrastructure to the bank, but does not go into competition with it.

  • 22-02-2002 pdf

    A Taxonomy of Electronic Payments
    The Internet is just beginning to realize one of its true callings: the facilitation of fast, friendly, low-cost business-to-business payments. Yet dystopian fragmentation among today's B2B exchanges, disintermediators, tech-led pilots, corporate spin-offs and bank joint ventures could lead to distraction from the genuine payments needs of businesses, corporates and governments. This article identifies industry- and region-specific gaps in existing payments solutions, and sketches a taxonomy of emerging players in the B2B epayments space as a workable means of catalysing a less-paper future.

  • 20-02-2002

    Michel Akkermans Sees Specific E-finance Know-How In Belgium
    When he sold his technology company FICS at the end of 1999 to the American group S1, it appeared that Michel Akkermans' future lay in the US. Two years later, he chose Europe once again and has resurfaced both in established organizations such as Gimv and the start-up company Clear2Pay. "There is a common thread about what I do'', says Michel Akkermans.

  • 19-12-2001 pdf

    Payment Over the Internet Can Be Handled More Elegantly
    European Commissioner Bolkestein may well criticize the high costs of international payments, but the fact is that the single currency will see banks saying farewell to a lucrative part of their business. In the Netherlands and Belgium we have become accustomed for some time to extremely efficient systems. Banks have until now charged little for payments services. They only make significant margins on cross-border payment transactions.