There are at least five portals in Romanian providing listings of links by categories and search engines. Some of them provide news content as well as e-commerce B2C offers. In most cases, the contents and the search engines are of poor quality. The use of credit cards in Romania is in its initial stages. While the number of stores that accept payment by credit card increases, the customers are not yet well educated regarding their use.
Most banks lack the infrastructure necessary for clearing payments by Internet.
However, major banks already average about 250,000 credit card users per bank. Internet Security Market 1. Authentication User name and password represent the most widely used procedure. Password and SSL seem to represent the current trend. These solutions are implemented by several companies, which consider them to be reliable.