Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is shaping business strategies and purchasing behaviours of consumers because it offers new opportunities for business, and convenience and added value to consumers. However, security concerns are still preventing e-commerce from achieving its full potential....

Examines an often overlooked aspect of regulatory compliance in the transactional context, ie UK privacy laws. Looks at how they operate and reviews data privacy laws in the European Union: organisations, as “data controllers”, have obligations to individuals as “data subjects”, to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the increased exposure to cyber crime which would result if one‐day cheque clearance were introduced in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – This paper undertakes a comparative analysis of the UK and US cheque‐clearance systems,...