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Ten years ago, internet payments seemed to be a new and quickly expanding universe, ready to be taken over by new and fanciful payment methods. New companies were taking if not the market so at least the headlines by storm. The year 1994 saw the foundation of new upstarts such as DigiCash, CyberCash and First Virtual, and 1994 also was the birth year of SSL (the current standard of encoding confidential information sent over the internet).

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Krueger, M., Leibold, K. (2008). Internet Payments in Germany. In: Seese, D., Weinhardt, C., Schlottmann, F. (eds) Handbook on Information Technology in Finance. International Handbooks Information System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49487-4_11

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