e-Payment: The Digital Exchange

Margaret Tan

The volume of payments handled electronically has increased dramatically in recent years, as have liquidity, volatility and the amount of money flowing across borders. Combine these global trends with a growing convergence in network architecture as e-payment of all kinds moves to Internet protocols, and an ever-increasing push to link payments with business and consumer data, and you have a shifting e-payment landscape that presents daunting challenges, as well as exciting opportunities, for banks, businesses, governments and citizens.

This book takes a unique, wholly integrated look at the e-payment landscape, viewing consumer, business and wholesale payments as a continuum. It presents a unique description of the changing environment and delineates the dynamic e-payment scene, helping us to understand the possibilities as well as the limits to change, and making a strong contribution to the increasingly important debate about the future of money.

« This book, which covers all electronic means of payment and their associated issues in great detail, is an authoritative work for those who wish to understand the subject in more depth.It covers payments for individuals, organisations and banks, and all of their possible permutations. Author Margaret Tan also looks in depth at advances in security and the legal issues involved.»
- Supply Management At the same time as bringing a good depdi of understanding to the subject, it is also readable for those not familiar with the terminology.

Margaret TAN is an Associate Professor of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also the Deputy Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre.

publication year: 2004
240 pages
ISBN: 978-9971-69-285-8  Paperback  US$22.00  S$28.00