Credit Cards and Smart Cards

American Express Co: The site of this major credit card issuer provides information for consumers and business people about American Express credit card and travel services. http://www.americanexpress.com/homepage/mt_personal.shtml

Citibank: A site of a credit card company where you can apply for credit and do your banking online. http://www.citibank.com/domain/

Discover: Another popular credit card company that offers online card application. http://www.discovercard.com/discover/data/

Federal Trade Commission: A very good resource that will guide you through choosing and using credit cards. The article provides useful information to consider when shopping for credit cards such as credit card terms, costs and features and cardholder protections. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/choose.htm

The Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC): This organization is a consortium of banks, financial services providers, national laboratories, universities, and government agencies who sponsor and participate in non-competitive collaborative research and development on interbank technical projects. It is working on fraud prevention, electronic commerce, electronic checks, and image exchange. The site offers information about ongoing projects. http://www.fstc.org/

Online Credit Cards Directory: A directory of credit cards and their various features, types, bank issuers with online applications. http://www.creditcards.com/

MasterCard International: This huge site sponsored by this large credit card organization provides valuable information on credit cards, smart cards, secure electronic transactions, the future of money and consumer and merchant information. http://www.mastercard.com/us/gateway.html

Money Page: This site provides a host of consumer finance information. The site also provides useful information on electronic money including smart cards and other technologies. The electronic information can be found at: http://www.moneypage.com/emoney/

Smart Card Cybershow: This site is an excellent resource for information about smart card development, usage and technology. The site provides news, links, articles and statistics on the smart card industry. http://www.cardshow.com

Smart Card News Online: This site provides useful up-to-date news about the smart card industry. The UK site provides news, a library and excellent world-wide coverage. http://www.smartcard.co.uk

Smart Card Resource Center: This site provides links to vendors that provide a wide range of technologies for electronic transactions and smart cards, everything from bar codes to system integrators. http://www.smartcard.ust.hk/popularpicks/main.htm

Visa International: This site sponsored by this large credit card organization provides primarily consumer and merchant information concerning credit cards and a small amount of information about electronic payment systems, smart cards, and remittance services. http://www.visa.com/globalgateway/gg_selectcountry.html?retcountry=1