Security: The Problem
While electronic commerce applications must be extremely secure, they must also:
Be extensible to accomodate new applications.
Allow cooperation between Payment Systems
Allow cooperation between Financial Services

In the real world, financial institutions do share data with other institutions, but access is extremely limited. In fact, all business relationships have defined limited trust. Every business-to-business contract specifies roles, responsibilities, rights and deliverables among the participants.

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