The subject of payment technology is central to e-business applications. Payment technologies' main role is to facilitate transactions by saving time and providing cost effectiveness, value for money, and flexibility for consumers. Payment Technologies for E-Commerce provides brings to light electronic payment systems that serve as the backbone for payments made electronically. The book also em...

This paper is mainly concerned with the study in which how we can make our electronic transaction more safely and protective and also concerned with research of the security technology, key technology and current application protocol of payment transaction on network, and gives some useful suggestions and countermeasures for the development of protective payment transaction on network and safet...

Security is clearly a very important factor governing the size of the e-commerce market. E-commerce security concerns include payment confidentiality, payment integrity, and payment authorisation for Internet transactions. Currently, many potential e-commerce participants are reluctant to participate in Internet e-commerce because of these concerns, not least because many users perceive Interne...

The main incentive for the use of electronic commerce (E-commerce) and spread on a large scale is that most of business activities need payment system. As E-commerce requires an efficient payment system which is stable and secure for supporting electronically commerce. This paper proposed to enforce SET, SSL protocols for encrypting e-payment information. It also presented several methods to ta...

The micro-payment system is an important technique in electronic commerce. The high-value payment system is not suitable for a micro-payment system because the requirements are di€erent. To meet sucient security for all participants in electronic commerce, a micro-payment system makes it possible to make small payment through electronic communication networks. In this paper, we propose a simpl...

Current macro-payment systems used by most E-commerce sites are not suitable for high-volume, low-cost produce or service purpose, such as charging per-page for web site browsing. These payment technologies suffer from use of heavyweight encryption technologies and reliance on always on-line authorisation servers. Micro-payment systems offer an alternative strategy of pay-as-you-go charging, ev...

Two fundamental payment methods exist for online information purchase: macropayment and micro-payment. Traditional macro-payment methods, like credit and charge cards and digital currency, are suitable for large-value, low-volume transactions. However, large-volume, low-value commodities, such as discrete units of information from a website, better suit a micro-payment model. In micro-payment, ...

This paper presents findings from a study examining the diffusion and adoption of online retailing in Saudi Arabia. Although the country has the largest and fastest growing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the Arab region, growth in e-commerce activities has not progressed at a commensurate rate. In general, Saudi retailers have not kept pace with the global growth of ...

This paper presents the state of e-commerce infrastructure in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). The state of e-commerce is comprised of factors not only technological, but also economic, social, commercial, legal, and regulatory. Based on the assessment of its current state, an attempt is made at projecting the future prospects for e-commerce in the GMS. E-commerce in the GMS countries is min...

This paper reports our findings on the impacts of information privacy, financial reward, and buyers’ protection excess on consumers’ utility using E-payment Gateways. We invited users of the G2C E-government Portal of Hong Kong to participate in an online experiment and collected data from 1,795 subjects. From our conjoint analysis, we find that monetary reward has the most significant impact o...