NCB, then, could be used to finance the Internet investments.
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In contrast, the U.S. list covers a broad range of industries including Internet, finance, bio-technology and media.
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Even Germany's postal-savings bank is making noises about becoming an Internet-finance leader.
What tempts the likes of Chase, Citi and Merrill to be proactive is the possibility of becoming one of a handful of big firms that dominate Internet personal finance.
Travelers checks remain a useful option, but the places you'll exchange the checks overseas offer rates 5% or more worse than what you'll receive using credit cards, so your best bet is to stick with plastic, says Lucy Lazarony of Bankrate.com, an Internet personal finance Web site.
Is addressing that big pool of poorer underserved people the best thing that could happen to finance, and can the Internet change this industry?
Some predict a coming era of micro-entrepreneurship in which people create their own jobs by turning to the Internet to help finance businesses, create products and services, and distribute and sell them.
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This provides, on the face of it, the strongest argument against an Internet revolution in consumer finance.
In fact, in the automotive, finance and health sectors, the internet has now surpassed TV as the most influential media for generating WOM brand conversations.
Standard Life expects the bank to make a profit in 2002, but Mr Spowart has already moved on to Halifax bank, for which he is next month starting a new telephone and Internet bank, Intelligent Finance.
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union however, with the resulting massive increases in trade and overall interdependence between nations, and the advent of the internet, with its electronic banking and finance, all this has completely changed.
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Both apply to applicable Internet sales, according to the state Department of Taxation and Finance.
When Congress wrote the last campaign finance law five years ago, it didn't even mention the Internet.
Infrastructure finance is one of the few remaining asset classes that have not yet fully embraced modern internet technology.
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Because they are considered high-risk and require high capital expenditure ( unlike Internet technologies which are very cheap and practically commoditized), banks are reluctant to finance them unless they are able to find government-secured financing.
Think Finance, our No. 2 pick, raked in half a billion in sales last year using the Internet to provide subprime borrowers with loans.
Outside the world of the Internet, young rich list members have been able to cash in from a few other industries such as finance and sports.
As the Internet becomes a more powerful tool for connecting with voters and generating support, is it possible that campaign finance and lobbying money might have less of an influence (as happened ultimately with SOPA)?
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