Nom Description XML and Other Data Formats   Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe SEMPER is a European R&D project in the area of secure electronic commerce over open networks.   Payment mechanisms designed for the Internet Provides a treasure-trove of links for zillions of standards and proposals.   SERIFF Simple Exchange Rate Information File Format. Completely *.ini-centric in layout and design, but otherwise seemingly quite complete.   Quicken File Reader RFP at Cosource is willing to pay $25,000 for a file reader that can read Quicken files natively.   IFX Forum XML-based financial-info exchange protocol developed by various banks.   Open Financial Exchange A consortium backed by Intuit, CheckFree and Microsoft do advance on-line banking. Primarily a definition of OFX, an XML-based protocol for the exchange of banking info and on-line bill-pay.   Open Trading Protocol IETF Proposed Standard for an XML-based internet commerce protocol. Offers support for offering goods & services, pruchases, invoice presentation, payment and payment receipts. Version 1 has been around for years and currently exists as an informational RFC. Version 2 is in development and slated to become a draft in Summer 2001.   FpML - Financial Product Markup Language XML-based protocol for the exchange and trading of financial instruments.   DTA (Daten Traeger Austausch) is an online banking format used in Switzerland by --all-- Swiss banks. The format is open. See also the dtaus software on metalab.unc.edu or mirrors.   HBCI Home Banking Computer Interface -- a banking protocol used widely by German banks.   Small Business XML Publicly-documented XML DTD for conducting small & medium-sized business transactions.   Open Applications Group Specs for XML-based business software interoperability. Includes XML specs for request-for-quote, shipping, & numerous other projects.   OMG General Ledger (GL) Facility The Compass submission for the OMG (CORBA) General Ledger.   XFRML, XML-based Financial Reporting Markup Language Quote from their site: XFRML is a framework that will allow the financial community a standards-based method to prepare, publish in a variety of formats, exchange and analyze financial reports and the information they contain.   TIP- Transaction Internet Protocol The Transaction Internet Protocol (RFC 2371) difines a simple transactional two-phase-commit protocol that can be used for transactional messaging. For example, if you want to withdraw $100 from an account on computer A and deposit that money into an account one computer B, and make sure that you haven't 'lost' or 'gained' the money in transit, you need a transactional protocol.