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On the Internet, customers often purchase products or services by giving their credit card information to a supplier, who then submits a debit to the customer's account with a credit card agency. Cyber-cash provides a new alternative, for which no one standard approach is dominant. In one configuration, a customer makes purchases recorded by a financial institution, which are then periodically aggregated for lump-sum billing to a credit card account.

In another configuration, a customer pays into an account set up by a company, which could be a traditional financial institution, or some alternative entity, and then makes purchases for which that special account is automatically debited. Some observers believe that cyber-cash will become an important source of competition with traditional financial institutions and will raise new policy challenges for governments.

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