The European Commission organised an informal meeting in Brussels last October in order to get a clear picture about the current status, progress and implications of the convergence of the Universal Business Language (UBL) standard into standards developed by UN/CEFACT. A point of discussion was whether or not any actions - in addition to the ongoing […]

 
With e-invoicing we usually think of sending invoices electronically. And that makes sense. In the first place, we - including the legislators- all use the phrase e-billing or e-invoicing and not e-receiving. In addition, several different models for e-invoicing to be in place. Such as e-mail, web presentment, a banking environment and EDI. And there […]

The European Commission is to create a Payment Systems Market Expert Group (PSMEG). The group will be composed of experts competent in the area of payments. It will aim to gain inputs on payment issues, including fraud prevention, from a range of stakeholders, in particular the payment industry and users. Interested candidates are invited to […]

 
In the autumn of 2008, the EEI Platform was announced as the European equivalent of Dutch initiative Platform ELFA. Until January 1, 2009 organizations had the opportunity to subscribe as a Founding Partner. The initiative aims to lift the influence of the Dutch cooperative around electronic bill to a similar European level. Several internationally oriented parties in the Netherlands […]

One of Austria’s leading retail banks, BAWAG, is taking part in a Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Direct Debit (DD) pilot, scheme operated by the payments specialist VocaLink.
The bank will benefit from a broad range of services, prior to the launch of SEPA DD payments in November 2009, including a payments capture process which removes […]

In the sixth progress report on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), published this week, the Governing Council of the ECB welcomed the evident progress made on this project, but emphasised that work urgently remains to be done to ensure the success of SEPA. The sixth progress report also contains a list of “Ten milestones […]

OB10 and Basware are helping save business customers vast amounts of paper by completely eliminating the need for printed invoices
      
Basware, the leading provider of purchase to pay solutions, today announced a global partnership with OB10, the leading global B2B e-Invoicing network. The partnership enables Basware’s customers to benefit from OB10’s best practice supplier enrolment. […]

At the start of 2008, the European Commission has set up an Expert Group on the subject of electronic invoicing. The thirty members of the Expert Group should represent all key stakeholders concerning e-Invoicing. The members shall be appointed by the Commission from specialists with competence in the area of e-Invoicing on the basis of applications […]

The first set of UBL 2.0 data dictionary translations is now out for public review. The first set of UBL 2.0 data dictionary can be downloaded from http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/idd/UBL-2.0-idd.zip.
 
Created by OASIS UBL localization subcommittees (LSCs) to aid in global UBL deployment, this package provides translations of the 1900+ standard UBL business term definitions into Japanese, Italian, […]

The Plan Avanza has mobilised € 1800 million in 2006-2008 to facilitate the introduction of new technologies in Spanish SMEs. David Cierco, Director General for Development of the Information Society within the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade unveiled this information on the occasion of the presentation of the Prointur project (Profesionalización del Turismo […]