It is important to differentiate between these types of payment risk as the way of dealing with them will be quite different. Treating all payment risks in a similar way is a common problem and will lead to increased costs, reduced effectiveness of operations and disgruntled customers. All types of customer might fall into any of these categories – Consumer, Corporate, SME etc. Identifying, pre...

Credit card payment system is the most popular way to make a purchase on electronic commerce. The main problem about using it is that the customer gives his personal information and credit card number to merchant or payment service provider when he makes a purchase in Internet. The result of this action is the lost of customer’s anonymity and privacy in both the real world and Internet. We prop...

This paper presents an exploratory agent-based model of a real time gross settlement (RTGS) payment system. Banks are represented as agents who exchange payment requests, which are then settled according to a set of simple rules. The model features the main elements of a real-life system, including a central bank acting as liquidity provider, and a simplified money market. A simulation exercise...

This case features TradeCard Inc., a New York-based financial supply chain service provider, and its plan to expand into the China market. The case discusses how a structured B2B online payment system such as TradeCard can be marketed in China and how TradeCard Inc. can create a critical mass of users in China.

This paper focuses on deployment of voice over the Internet for the customers of a global services provider which needed to extend cost-effectively the portfolio of enhanced voice services including unified messaging, post paid and prepaid calling card services along with related validation, billing and payment systems. Key-words: VoIP, Internet, SS7, Compression, QoS

OBJECTIVE To document changes in type of financing for office-based visits for the treatment of common skin conditions and to dermatologists. DESIGN Data from a national survey of visits to office-based practitioners conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics were used. The stratified sampling technique permits estimation of the total number of office visits with specific characte...

Case rate payments combined with utilization monitoring may have the potential to improve the quality of care by reducing over and under-treatment. Thus, a national managed care organization introduced case rate payments at one multi-site radiation oncology provider while maintaining only fee-for-service payments at others. This study examined whether the introduction of the payment method had ...

A secure electronic cash scheme and its role-based access control (RBAC) management are proposed in this paper. The scheme uses electronic cash for payment transactions. In this protocol, from the viewpoint of banks, consumers can improve anonymity if they are worried about disclosure of their identities. A new role called anonymity provider agent (AP) provides a highly anonymous certificate fo...

California Improvement Network (CIN) partners — provider groups and coalitions, health plans, and quality improvement organizations — gathered in February 2017 to discuss the payment landscape and how to prepare for likely changes. While health care policies were being debated in Washington, DC, the partners expressed concern about potential upheaval but also hope that any changes will enable t...