Electronic Commerce and Electronic Money - Co-operative efforts undertaken at the Bank for International

Regardless of the real volume, the past and predicted increase in electronic commerce, and in particular its cross-border potential, raises questions of a technical, organisational, business and legal nature that were hitherto less prominent on the retail level. One of the challenges in electronic commerce is "electronic payment" for goods ordered through - and increasingly also delivered through - networks.

If we take for instance the information that is available on the web-site of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), http://www.bis.org : This information, in particular the publications of the BIS, is offered free of charge. If the Bank were to charge for it, we would be entering the realms of electronic commerce. In its full sense this means not only that information, documents or services are delivered to your PC but also tha...

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