Electronic Money

ClickZStats: This site provides up-to-date news about the Internet and its commercial applications. Subjects include advertising, usage, studies, statistics, and hotlinks to documents and studies. http://www.clickz.com/stats/

Cybercash: The site of a major supplier of Internet fund transfer services. http://www.cybercash.com/

Electronic Commerce: This site is an excellent source of articles on Internet commerce. http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/

Electronic Frontier Foundation: This site provides access to one of the most comprehensive discussions of the Internet and its development anywhere. http://www.eff.org/

Electronic Privacy Information Center: Provides information on e-commerce issues, (i.e. encryption). http://www.epic.org

E-Money Inc.: The site of a company that offers Internet-based automated payment services. http://www.efunds.com/splash.html

The Federal Reserve Board: The analysis study on the Federal Reserve site discussing the future of retail electronic payment systems. http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/staffstudies/2000-present/ss175.pdf

Fed Services: : This site has a pdf file that explains the electronic transmission of the MICR line. http://www.frbservices.org/Retail/pdf/NationwideElecCheck.pdf

Federal Trade Commission "A Consumer's Guide to E-Payments". : This site has a short guide for consumers. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/payments.htm

InternetCash: This site offers a patent pending software that enables secure payments on the Internet http://www.internetcash.com/

Microsoft Internet Services Network: Provides information on e-commerce as well and contact information for a small- to medium-sized businesses to receive information about Microsoft’s e-commerce web site hosting plans. http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/default.asp

The Money Page: This site covers security issues with electronic payments, ecommerce on the Interent, smart cards among others. http://www.moneypage.com/emoney/

PayPal: This site serving as a tool to send and receive money online has become a popular way of exchanging transactions. You can sign up for a PayPal account for free. http://www.paypal.com/

Peppercorn: A low-cost electronic payment system for processing micropayments based on the work of Ron Rivest, father of the RSA Public Key crypto-security system, and Silvio Micali, two of the world's leading cryptographers and information security experts. http://www.peppercoin.com/

Phone Paid: A site where you can send and receive money and pay for goods and services through a mobile phone. http://www.phonepaid.com/home/home.htm