The US House of Representatives and the Senate reached an agreement on the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act late last week, and the bill is expected to pass both congressional houses, possibly by next week.
We have reached an impasse with the government where what is needed is quiet calm deliberation. Today the House of Lords continues its final report stage which could send the Bill back to the House of Commons and see it passed in the next two weeks.
IT services company Unisys has launched what it claims to be the first Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (e-BPP) service to bring the billers, banks and customers together. Hoss Atri, programme director for e-payments at Unisys, said in a...
Fraudulent transactions have dropped dramatically due to the system, Kapioski said, which now makes up 30 per cent of Thriftway's electronic payments. Kapioski said the main business driver for the biometrics was cost, allowing the retailer to...
Representative John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat and the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called the announcement "a serious down-payment on resolving the scourge of identity theft and related abuse".
Delays in processing claims meant that in 2006 there was still £3.5bn of outstanding maintenance payments to be collected, with only one in three parents receiving any payment.silicon.com Public Sector