Steve Knight.

E-commerce and e-business - buzz-words for the late nineties and a world away from pounds, shillings and pence.

These days, one only has to open up a newspaper or switch on the TV
to be bombarded with information and adverts expounding the virtues of
e-commerce and e-business. Even that upstanding and trusted pillar of the
worldwide community, President Bill Clinton, said in July that "electronic
commerce was the key to future business prosperity".


If one believes what one reads, hears or sees, it would appear that unless
companies (and therefore brokers) fully embraced the benefits of this new
medium then