TITLE

Point, click and pay

AUTHOR(S)

Stone, Brad; Tanaka, Jennifer; Lach, Jennifer

PUB. DATE

August 1998

SOURCE

Newsweek;8/17/1998, Vol. 132 Issue 7, p66

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses online banking service in the United States. The percentage of households using the Internet for banking; Companies working on services to bring banks and merchants together at one Web site; How online banking works; Question of who will deliver service; Companies like CheckFree and Intuit supporting a consolidation site model with hypertext links; Consumer reaction to having their financial information on the Internet. INSET: Bill of the future.

ACCESSION #

942913

Tags: BANKING industry;  INTERNET -- Economic aspects;  PERSONAL finance;  WEBSITES -- Economic aspects;  PUBLIC opinion;  COMPUTER network resources

 

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