Bank
of America
Reconcile your books, monitor check clearances, transfer and stop payments, and view your balance, all via you PC. That is, if you're with Bank of America
Barklays
As staid as you would expect from the UK's largest banking/stock/insurance conglomerate. In the future it promises serious online features sick as credit card applications and a help desk but at this stage it's just the leaflets you avoid as you're waiting for service.
DigiCash
DigiCash is one of the frontrunners in the race to develop as acceptable "smart" currency for Net transactions. Right now, it's all experimental but it hopes its ecash will soon become a global standard. Pick up some electronic fun-tickets and purchase various intangibles at hundreds of participating shops around the esatisfaction of helping build the future of commence.
European
Union Bank
Antiguan offshore banking services via the Net.
First
Virtual
Third party clearing house for Net transactions on electronically transferable items such as software, text, and advice. Participating vendors deliver the goods first. If you're satisfied, you instruct First Virtual to pay. Purchases are accrued and charged against your credit card details upon joining, no sensitive information ever passes over the Net.
MasterCard
International
Like Visa, DigiCash, and First Virtual, MasterCard appears well poised to profit from developments in electronic payments, smart cards, and online transactions. You'll get a somewhat based idea of where it's all heading by delving through these pages, plus whatever MasterCard information you could possibly want other then your balance.
Network
Payments and Digital Cash
http://ganges.cs.tcd.ie/mepeirce/project.html
Some say paper cash is going the same way as pieces-of-eight, sea shells, and salt. Judge for yourself how close we are to obtaining alternative global currency or, more urgently, an acceptable method of completing online transactions.
Visa
Expo
Will Visa achieve "One World, One Currency- Visa?" Who knows, but they certainly have as edge in electronic banking. As this site drums home.
World
Bank
The World Bank's major role is to help developing countries reduce poverty and sustain economic growth. These pages extensively document the bank's projects and aspirations. If you're perplexed by how it can give away so much money and still stay afloat, you might come away a little more enlighted, if not somewhat optimistic for the future.
