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EBPP - The Market Potential

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Tarifica at PBI Media LLC
Published: March 2001
Product Code: R273-0025
Description

Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) is the term used to describe the capability to present bills to customers and to facilitate their payment by electronic means. EBPP offers the opportunity to eliminate costs associated with printing paper bills, reduce delivery delays and provide a channel for two way communications between suppliers and their customers on a one-to-one basis, enabling personalised marketing and robust business/consumer relationships to be constructed.

Whilst EBPP can help simplify bills for customers, the market place is complex, with different types of players and EBPP models. This report is your guide to this complex market. It helps you understand EBPP business models, key players and the challenges they face. It discusses the key industry issues - such as standardisation, security and data privacy and evaluates EBPP service developments in USA, Europe and Asia Pacific, as well as future directions and market forecasts.

Who should buy this report

- Banks
- De-regulated Utilities
- Telco's
- Billing Managers
- Systems Vendors
- Investors
Table of Contents

CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. WHAT EBPP IS ALL ABOUT

1.1 Definition of EBPP
1.2 Components
1.3 A confused market place

UNDERSTANDING EBPP BUSINESS MODELS

1.4 EBPP Types
1.4.1 Biller Direct
1.4.2 Email based
1.4.3 Consolidation and hybrids
1.4.4 Consumer centric aggregation
1.4.5 The rise of the portal – Yahoo Netscape and Vendor portals
1.4.6 Service Bureau
1.4.7 ASP Model
1.4.8 Developments
1.4.9 Conclusion – EBPP Types

2. VENDORS

2.1 Key players
2.1.1 Service Bureau players
2.1.2 Email Based players
2.1.3 Consumer Centric Aggregator players
2.1.4 Consolidator players
2.1.5 Biller Direct players
2.1.6 General EBPP categories

2.2 Vendor issues highlighted
2.3 Bricks and Clicks
2.4 Educating the customer
2.5 Key issues

3. STANDARDS

3.1 A lack of standardisation and clarity of aims
3.2 Standardisation as an imperative

STANDARDISATION ATTEMPTS

3.4 OFX
3.5 GOLD
3.6 IFX
3.7 Spectrum
3.8 Transpoint
3.9 Mastercard

B2B STANDARDISATION

3.10 IDENTRUS
3.11 Standardisation developments outside the US

TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS

3.12 XML, WML and Enterprise Java
3.13 Conclusion - Standards

4. END USER PROTECTION – SECURITY, DATA PRIVACY AND LEGAL ISSUES

SECURITY
4.1 Security issues
4.2 Is EBPP Safe?
4.3 Financial security – criminal and fraudulent use
4.4 Broadband – saviour or sinner of the Internet world?
4.5 Security standardisation
4.6 Conclusion - Security

DATA PRIVACY

4.7 Sales/marketing opportunities and privacy intrusion
4.8 Data mining
4.9 TRUSTe
4.10 Privacy protection as a business
4.11 Conclusion – Data Privacy

LEGAL ISSUES

4.12 Legal issues surrounding the legal ‘binding power’ of email and electronic signatures
4.13 Email
4.14 Electronic and digital signatures
4.15 Regional legal issues
4.16 Conclusion - Legal

5. EBPP SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

5.1 Who uses EBPP now and in the future?
5.2 Banks
5.3 Utilities
5.4 Telecom operators
5.5 Operators implementing EBPP services
5.5.1 North America
5.5.2 Europe
5.5.3 Asia Pacific
5.6 Other implementers - the postal industry

6. CUSTOMERS AND DEMAND

6.1 Customer demand – present and future
6.2 EBPP potential markets
6.3 B2B, B2C and SME market potential
6.4 B2B momentum driving B2C take-up
6.5 B2B complexities and problems
6.6 SME market demand
6.7 Conclusion – Customers and Demand


7. CHOOSING AN EBPP SOLUTION

7.1 Primary considerations
7.2 B2B issues when choosing an EBPP solution
7.3 CRM issues when choosing an EBBP solution
7.4 Conclusion – Choosing an EBPP solution

8. REGIONS AND STATE OF DEVELOPMENT

8.1. USA

8.1.1 Global expansion
8.1.2 Nationalistic approach
8.1.3 Legacy cheque industry
8.1.4 Acquisition/merger


8.2. EUROPE

8.2.1 A diverse market place
8.2.2 Financial institution differences
8.2.4 Financial issues in Europe
8.2.5 A unified Europe
8.2.6 Likely European EBPP models
8.2.7 Brand power
8.2.8 How much to adopt, how much to adapt

8.3. ASIA PACIFIC

8.3.1 Economic down-turn
8.3.2 Technology
8.3.3 Financial transactions
8.3.4 Local partnering knowledge
8.3.5 Future development
8.3.6 China
8.3.7 Australia – Europe in Asia


9. FUTURE TRENDS

9.1 The power of television
9.2 EBPP and e-commerce future development
9.3 Old industry model versus new
9.4 The problem of online anonymity in e-transactions

10. EBPP - ENABLING VALUE ADDED SERVICES – CRM, E-CARE AND ONE-TO-ONE MARKETING

10.1 Importance of customer servicing
10.2 Money savings
10.3 Saving time/CSR resources
10.4 Enabling enhanced customer services
10.5 One-to-one marketing

11 THE CONTENT ECONOMY

11.1 EBPP as driver of the value based billing model
11.2 EBPP as enabler of near real-time billing

12. MARKET FORECASTS

Service revenues 2001 through 2005 for North America, West Europe and Asia Pacific

13. CONCLUSIONS

14. METHODOLOGY

15. APPENDIX
GLOSSARY

List of Figures Page

Figure 1: Biller Direct process

Figure 2: Email based process

Figure 3: Thick Consolidator process

Figure 4: Thin Consolidator process

Figure 5: Consumer-centric aggregation process

Figure 6: Service Bureau process

Figure 7: Invited Pull process

Figure 8. The pros and cons of major EBPP solutions

Figure 9: EBPP vendors by primary EBPP model offered

Figure 10: OFX Solution providers offering OFX 2.0 (latest version)

Figure 11: OFX Implementation

Figure 12: Spectrum member partners

Figure 13: Mastercard competitors and e-initiatives

Figure 14: IDENTRUS members

Figure 15: IDENTRUS transaction process

Figure 16: Major online security companies

Figure 17: Security risks current and predicted by security breach type

Figure 18: Table - security risks current and predicted by security breach type

Figure 19: Board members Financial Services Roundtable

Figure 19: Operator EBPP implementations and planned implementations

Figure 20: Known EBPP implementations and planned implementations (map)

Figure 21: Known EBPP implementations and planned implementations

Figure 22: e-Commerce Forecast Growth (US)

Figure 23: EDI, Internet and other systems used in US B2B transactions

Figure 24: EBPP selection process flow

Figure 25: EBPP capability in relation to area of effect

Figure 26: Usage of wireless devices for financial services -- 2000

Figure 27: Wireless financial services forecast growth 2000-2005

Figure 28: US Internet-based EBPP Sales of vendor solutions forecast growth 2000-2004

Figure 29: European Internet-based EBPP sales of vendor solutions forecast growth 2000-2004

Figure 30: Asia/Pacific Internet-based EBPP sales of vendor solutions forecast growth 2000-2004

Figure 31: Internet-based EBPP sales of vendor solutions global comparisons

Figure 32: Internet-based EBPP sales of vendor solutions market share by year – 2000

Figure 33: Internet-based EBPP sales of vendor solutions market share by year – 2001

Figure 34: Internet-based EBPP sales of vendor solutions market share by year – 2002

Figure 35: Internet-based EBPP sales of vendor solutions market share by year – 2003

Figure 36: Internet-based EBPP sales of vendor solutions market share by year – 2004

Figure 37: IDENTRUS financial transaction usage forecast

Figure 38: Forecast market segment by EBPP vendor type - world market

Figure 39: Market segment by EBPP vendor type - world market 1998

Figure 40: Market segment by EBPP vendor type - world market 2000

Figure 41: Forecast market segment by EBPP vendor type - world market 2003

Figure 42: Forecast market segment by EBPP vendor type - world market 2005

Figure 43: US electronic bill payment and presentment households forecast growth 1999-2005

Figure 44: Table US electronic bill payment and presentment households forecast growth 1999-2005

Figure 45: Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment Households Global Shares Forecast 2005

Figure 46: Global Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment Households
Forecast 2005
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