Vincent Molinari is CEO, Gate Technologies, LLC, an electronic transaction platform for global private, restricted, alternative and illiquid assets.

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Credit card companies are working with CyberCash and Netscape Communications to develop and implement the new Secure Electronic Transaction protocol for online credit card commerce.

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"It's an electronic middleman that basically knows that a transaction occurs but it doesn't know who did it and how it was done, " said Don Upson, secretary of technology and chief information officer for Virginia.

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It allows users to exchange bitcoin files without keeping as detailed of a record of the transaction as would be required over PayPal or other electronic payment networks.

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Thain, a former banker at Goldman Sachs Group (nyse: GS - news - people ) (which incidentally advised the two parties in the transaction), has been studying ways to boost electronic trading on the exchange without stepping on the toes of its floor traders.

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Electronic links between buyers and sellers will squeeze the last penny out of transaction costs.

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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is the regulator of the financial services industry in the UK. In March of 2008 the FSA enacted a regulation known as COBS 11.8.10R to require all telephone conversations and electronic communications to be recorded to and from traders, brokers, or anyone engaging in financial transaction that were likely to result in a trade.

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The ongoing role of the floor traders and specialists is still a matter of debate, but the planned Archipelago transaction has boosted optimism that at least the NYSE is heading into the future with a more competitive, electronic-oriented business model.

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