Regulators are turning a spotlight on cybermoney's snags

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The US Treasury Dept and the Group of Seven industrialized countries are separately setting up boards of regulators to examine issues related to electronic money. The Group of Seven committee will focus on the international cooperation required to govern transactions on the Internet. Governments are concerned about the opportunity for counterfeiting and money laundering. The US board will also examine consumer protection for smart cards pre-loaded with cash. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has already declared that money loaded on smart cards is not insured by the federal government, so there is little recourse if the card is lost. The US does not require that stored-value card issuers be banks, and the issuers are not regulated in any way, opening the door to possible abuses. Industry groups say that the technologies are so new that they should not be regulated.

Banking Institutions, Depository Credit Intermediation, DEPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS, Banking industry, Laws, regulations and rules, Banks (Finance), Electronic commerce, E-commerce, Group of 7, United States. Department of the Treasury, Government Regulation

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Credit cards on Internet given a lift

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Visa International and Mastercard International are developing a standard for electronic credit card transactions that will make it easier for companies to offer electronic commerce on the Internet. Mastercard is basically agreeing to join a standard that Visa is developing with Microsoft. The companies are planning to make the standard an open system that will allow other companies to join. Visa will pay a transaction fee to Microsoft for every transaction that relies on Microsoft software and Mastercard will either license this software or develop its own software. The decision to develop a standard also signals the intention of the credit card companies to get serious about stopping independent companies from developing technologies that use its credit cards and charge fees to use those cards.

All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing, Plastic Credit Cards, Standards, Credit cards, Standard, Standardization, Technology development, MasterCard International Inc., Credit and debit card industry, Credit card industry, Electronic funds transfer systems, Visa Inc., Technology Information

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Cable industry ready to fight to offer Internet access

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The cable television industry today will introduce the Cable Broadband Forum, an organization that will focus mostly on market research and publicity of the sector's modem technology. The move deepens the cable industry's resolve to battle telephone companies over developing domestic high-speed Internet access. Tele-Communications, Time Warner, Microsoft and Intel are backing the Cable Broadband Forum, according to the forum. Microsoft and Intel earlier in 1998 joined a phone group to create modems that are 20 times faster than current models. Frontier's Globalcenter subsidiary plans to introduce Internet Cable Express, a product that will allow small- and medium-sized cable companies to place customers on-line without spending millions to bolster their networks.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Modems, 301-1200 bps, Printed Circuit Assembly (Electronic Assembly) Manufacturing, Cable Television Systems, Cable Networks, Cable and other pay TV services, Planning, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Internet service providers, Marketing, Internet services, Cable modems, Cable television broadcasting industry, Cable television, Internet/Web technology, Cable television/data services, Modems, Internet access, Cable Modem

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