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Electronic Financial Services Links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
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This list of new and previously-overlooked links on electronic financial
services and electronic commerce law and policy will shortly be
available on the Web site of the Joint Subcommittee on Electronic Financial
Services (http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/efss), on the "What's New" page.
Australian Electronic Transactions Bill exposure draft
http://law.gov.au/ecommerce/
Washington State Court of Appeal decision holding that a "shrinkwrap"
license is enforceable and not unconscionable,
Mortensen v. Timberline Software
http://198.187.0.226/~COURTS/opinions/413040_O01.txt
New draft of Revised Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code
http://www.law.upenn.edu/library/ulc/ucc2/ucc2299.htm
Commentary on UCC 2B, including financing provisions, attribution procedures
and the relationship between 2B and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
http://www.2bguide.com/whatsnew.html
Draft report on the provisions of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
regarding the transferabilty of electronic assets
http://www.smu.edu/~jwinn/transferrecord.htm
American Bar Association Business Law Section Commercial Financial Services
and UCC Committees
http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/cfs-ucc/home.html
Department of Commerce and FTC press release on growth of online shopping
and importance of consumer protection
http://204.193.243.2/public.nsf/docs/commerce-ftc-press-release
Department of Commerce press release: US and EU moving closer on data
protection issues
http://www.usia.gov/current/news/latest/99020503.clt.html?/
European Commission Data Protection Working Party opinion on the level of
data protection in the U.S.
http://www.privacyexchange.org/news/990129wpdoc.html
European Commission study of data protection practices in selected
businesses
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg15/en/media/dataprot/studies/adequat.htm
Financial Information Privacy Act of 1999, introduced by Senators Sarbanes,
Dodd and Leahy
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c106:./temp/~c10628p8G2
Statement of SEC Chairman Levitt re risks of online trading
http://www.sec.gov/news/levonlin.htm
NASDAQ press release on trading in turbulent markets
http://www.nasdaq-amexnews.com/news/pr99/ne_section99_17.html
BOLERO initiative on electronic trade documentation
http://www.boleroltd.com/index.htm
Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce
http://www.gbde.org/
House Banking Committee Chairman Leach urges revision of Know Your Customer
rules
http://www.house.gov/banking/2499pr.htm
Rep. Ron Paul introduces H.R. 516 - 518, legislation to block Know Your
Customer rules and sunset Bank Secrecy Act
http://www.house.gov/paul/privacy/legislation.htm
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council notice of Uniform Rating
System for Information Technology
http://www.occ.treas.gov/ftp/regs/99-3a.txt
Consolidation of Bankers Clearing House and Western Payments Alliance into
Western Payments Services Company (ServCo)
http://www.bankers.org/ServCo1.html
Federal Reserve approval of bank group acquisition of the HONOR and STAR EFT
networks
http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/boarddocs/press/BHC/1999/199902012/
FTC annual report of agency action to enforce financial services laws
http://www.ftc.gov/os/1999/9901/frb99report.htm
FTC fixes date for public meeting on global consumer protection - June 8th
and 9th, 1999
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/9901/intintd.htm
Banking Industry Technology Secretariat (BITS) announces release of
Interactive Financial Exchange business message specification, including
messages to support interoperable electronic bill presentment and payment
http://www.bitsinfo.org/bitsdocuments.nsf/PublicDocs?OpenForm&tester=Public&
Press+Releases
BITS endorses work by the Electronic Check Clearing House Organization
(ECCHO) and Small Value Payments Company on electronic check presentment
http://www.eccho.org/press_releases.html
Electronic Check Presentment 101-the Basics
http://www.eccho.org/ecp_101.htm
Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration proposed regulation on use of
electronic communication by benefit plans,
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a990128c.html
IRS Notice 99-1 on use of electronic communication in benefit plan
administration
http://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-99-1.pdf
Allen and Widdison "Can Computers Make Contracts"
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Law/centre/hjolt.html
Bauer "Currency: Time for Change?"
http://www.clev.frb.org/research/com98/index.htm#1001
Radecki and Wenninger "Paying Electronic Bills Electronically"
http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/curr_iss/ci5-1.html
Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Payments System Overview
http://www.ny.frb.org/bankinfo/payments/
Business Software Alliance E-commerce principles
http://www.bsa.org/ceoforum/pdfs/ecommerce.pdf
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology conference, THE LEGAL AND POLICY
FRAMEWORK FOR GLOBAL ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: A PROGRESS REPORT, March 5-6, 1999
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/BCLT/ecom/
Washington College of Law at American University and Administrative Law
Review conference,
"Regul@tion$.gov: Coming to Terms with On-line Commerce" March 25-26, 1999
http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/spals/ereg/newindex.html
Reports on electronic payments and on-line banking by BancBoston Robertson
Stephens analyst Gary Craft, including "Building Out a New Payments
Infrastructure"
http://www.rsco.com/cgi-bin/analysts/Craft.cgi
Announcement of DigiGold electronic currency system
http://www.digigold.net/DigiGoldPressRelease.html
Cheskin Research study on building trust in e-Commerce
http://www.studioarchetype.com/cheskin/
Off-line:
Sommer, "A Law of Financial Accounts: Modern Payment and Securities
Transfer Law" in The Business Lawyer Vol. 53, No. 4 (August 1998)
"Symposium on Jurisdiction and the Internet" in The International Lawyer
Vol. 32, No. 4, Winter 1998:
The US Supreme Court denied certiorari in State Street Bank and Trust v.
Signature Financial Group, 98-657, regarding the patentability of a data
processing system for mutual fund administration
To reward those who have scrolled down this far, some nuggets of wisdom
from the February issue of WIRED Magazine (online February 23rd)
TIRED: Trust management
WIRED: Risk management
TIRED: Reintermediation
WIRED: Redisintermediation
John Muller
johnmuller@earthlink.net
"Things are not as they seem, neither are they otherwise"
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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