Abstract: A technique for identifying a payees and billers to be paid by an electronic commerce service provider on behalf of a consumer is provided. An electronic commerce service provider receives information identifying a consumer. The consumer identifying information does not identify any payee or biller. The electronic commerce service provider identifies one or more candidate payees by accessing at least one of credit report information, geographic information, industry classification information, and socio-demographic information. The service provider then presents identified candidate payees to the consumer.

Abstract: A technique for identifying electronic billers of a consumer whose bills are available by electronic presentment is provided. A request to identify electronic billers of the consumer is received. This request includes information that identifies the consumer, but excludes any information identifying any biller, electronic or not, of the consumer. From this information that does not identify any biller of the consumer, one more candidate electronic billers of the consumer are identified. Then, a positive determination is made that at least one of these candidate electronic billers is definitely an electronic biller of the consumer. Thus, electronic billers of the consumer are identified without the consumer identifying any biller.

Abstract: A computer-based system for managing risk among a plurality of accounts, each account having an associated account exposure, has a means for submitting a transaction to a selected account of a plurality of related accounts and a monitoring means, responsive to the submitting means, for determining a combined exposure of the plurality of related accounts associated with the selected account that would result from the submission of a transaction. A means, responsive to the monitoring means, is provided for authorizing the transaction when the combined exposure determined by the monitoring means is less than a first predetermined limit and for denying a submitted transaction when the combined exposure would exceed the first predetermined limit if the transaction were to be authorized. A means is provided for alerting a first officer when the combined exposure determined by the monitoring means would exceed a second predetermined limit if the transaction were to be authorized.