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To: BitWizrd who wrote (7743)	9/28/1998 3:00:00 PM
From: Wesley0428	Respond to of 8545

Is that Jimmy Durante's sister on the E-Banking home page?

To: BitWizrd who wrote (7743)	9/28/1998 3:06:00 PM
From: Brooks Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8545

Regarding CKFR, New Zealand and other potential overseas expansion. My theory -- totally unsupported by any reporting or firsthand (or even third-hand) knowledge -- is that CKFR cannot possibly "export" its U.S. expertise to other countries that have completely different banking, check-clearing, legal and computer networking systems. CKFR would have to be re-invented for each country. It other words, it's vastly more complicated than adapting a 110 appliance to 220 current. As for NZ -- a wild guess is that they modeled their national system sufficiently on the U.S. system that CKFR found it could port their technology and know-how over with relatively little loss in translation. Any New Zealand banking experts out there? Finally -- I seem to recall a news article linked a few hundred posts back that said that in the U.S. far more bills are paid by check than in several other countries, including Germany and Japan. From that I concluded that the potential business for CKFR in those countries would be only a fraction of the potential business in the U.S.