In December 1997, the Bank of Japan established the Forum on the Development of Electronic Payment Technologies and Its Implications for Monetary Policy. The objectives of the forum were to analyze the emergence of electronic means of payment including electronic money and its implications for monetary policy. The forum has met eight times and discussed a number of issues. This report summarize...

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VarietyCash is a new electronic money system which strikes a balance between functionality, security, and user privacy. The system can encompass both network and stored-value card based payment mechanisms, with transferability between them, hence the name.

EFT requires that the company being debited must authorize the transaction. This cable in other countries whose banking systems are different than those in the USA. Electronic fund transfers (EFT) as a process has been around for many years, although it is only lately that its importance in the electronic commerce cycle is being understood. This article relates to the electronic fund transfer s...