Global Banking Docs

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

For those who may have missed it, the European Committee for 
Banking Standards offers its "Secure Banking Over The Internet," 
March, 1997. An abstract of the 62-page report which also 
evaluates global electronic security and cryptographic tools:

   This ECBS Technical Report shall provide a survey of current 
   and planned banking use of the Internet, investigate the
   security requirements for secure banking on the Internet, 
   provide a survey of the security-related protocols, services 
   and applications on the Internet, discuss other requirements 
   for global banking (e.g. banking secrecy, data privacy, export 
   issues), and provide an outlook on new banking applications and 
   services such as electronic cash.

It's available in PDF format (241K) at:

   http://www.r3.ch/standards/ecbs/papers/tr401sbi.pdf

A mirror of the report is at: 

   http://jya.com/tr401sbi.pdf

Note: Acrobat reader version 3.0 is required; version 2.1 cannot 
read the report.

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The FDIC has published today a request for comment on
its proposed international banking regulations which
combines and consolidates its current three regs:

   http://jya.com/fdic071597.txt  (231K)