FINANCIAL TRANSACTION METHOD

摘要

A financial transaction method enabling a customer to deposit funds at a plurality of authorized service providers. A customer's card (with no printed material identifying the customer or his/her financial institution) is "swiped" in a card acceptor; the customer enters a password and PIN; the service provider enters the amount deposited and the card acceptor transmits the information and identifying service provider code to the network. Respective receipts are issued to the source provider and the customer who may be issued with a new PIN for the next transaction. For a secure financial transaction method, a customer accesses a network via a terminal at any one of the selected service providers connected to the network using a card which has no indicia identifying the customer or his/her financial accounts. The customer enters a password and PIN and authorises the supply of goods/services via the network so that the supplier of the goods/provider of the services cannot identify the actual customer.