Willesson [(2009). Pricing of card payment services in Scandinavian banking. <italic>The Service Industries Journal</italic>, <italic>29</italic>(3), 387--399] purports to demonstrate that when it comes to pricing of card payment services, Scandinavian banks with foreign operations will typically align themselves with the...

This paper documents the recent performance of European electronic purses. It presents data on 16 such schemes, and compares their penetration and usage rates. These rates are shown to differ substantially. A number of schemes are doing increasingly well and in all probability are here to stay....