Establishing trust! Electronic Payment: the dawning of a new era! Bankcards on view at the Cartes trade show! Trusting and vigilant cardholders Final preparations for c-TRAVEL before taking off... BNP Paribas, à la carte e-commerce CB-B0'/EMV cards here soon! The irresistible rise of distance selling! E-commerce driving distance selling Distance selling, the roads to maturity Desire for simplicity Towards a universal system Retailer contracts: new guarantees Germany embrases cards L@belsite: how to get it! Online commerce

In France, the development of distance selling - 8.9 billion euros in 2002 - is accompanied by extraordinary growth in e-commerce. What are the challenges facing this new form of commerce today? What are the expectations of e-merchants with regard to bankcards, Net users’ preferred method of payment? How will the CB system evolve to boost the security of online payments and keep apace with the boom in distance selling? The answers are in this special feature on distance selling. E-commerce driving distance selling Distance selling, the roads to maturity Desire for simplicity Towards a universal system Retailer contracts: new guarantees

– Towards payment Europe – Health: CB card payments in good form – Demonstration of Embedded FINREAD     – The advantages of 3D-Secure – Remote selling in Europe: Germany in the lead – Cyber-buyers: what motivates them?     – E-payments: Europeans are confident! – FINREAD tours United States – Embedded FINREAD adopted by the CEN