Received this from Henry in Holland :
" This will soon be launched in October. You just swipe your bankcard
through a reader attached to your PC
and you can conveniently order something from a webshop. These
are very popular here in the Netherlands.
iDEAL --- Internet Payment Method
- Your website will be featured
on the 'Virtual Shopping Mall'. Visitors can click directly to your
web shop.
- At Rabobank you will not lose
any interest days because we will credit payments to your account immediately
after receipt.
- We offer a unique service: URLinked.
URLinked allows your customers to click straight to your website from
their transaction overview in Rabo Internet Banking. What’s more, we
are offering this service free of charge until 1 October 2006. Refer
also to 'URLinked'.
Next step: you guessed it. Swipe your chip (your
hand)
Major Dutch banks joined in. When this becomes
a success, others will follow.