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Sixteen major Eurozone banks have come together in the European Payments Initiative (EPI) to launch a new payment system aimed at taking on rival card schemes and the threat posed by Chinese and US big-tech firms. Although previous pan-European collaboration projects (e.g. Monnet, Eaps, Payfair) have not been perceived as a great success,...

Earlier this week Apple announced iOS 14, its next mobile operating system for iPhones and iPads. Among other things, iOS 14 gives users more control over their personal data since the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) will be set to ‘disabled’ by default (currently its standard setting is ‘enabled’). The IDFA is a random device identifi...

Trust is the essential oil needed to make data flow in today’s transactional era...

The European Data Strategy is built on a new approach to handling data. The EU hopes to play a leading role in the future of data security by making better decisions. INNOPAY’s Mariane ter Veen speaks in this edition of our Data Sharing Journal (#DSJ) with Yvo Volman, head of the ‘Data Policy and Innovation’ unit at the Directorate-G...

Comparing the Dutch Veilig Tegen Corona coalition’s ten criteria against the EU Recommendation on a common toolbox for the use of technology and data to combat and exit from the COVID-19 crisis The development of contact-tracing applications (‘apps’) to combat COVID-19 is under close scrutiny. Veilig Tegen Corona (VTC), a coalition of co...