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. ---------- 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)