1.   As part of that arrangement, Amazon customers who click on the eLuxury link are taken to an eLuxury site within Amazon, so eLuxury handles the transaction.

2.   Banca Serfin SA, the banking unit of Grupo Financiero Serfin SA, handled the transaction.

3.   Bank of America uses Managing Your Money, a personal finance computer application it acquired with NationsBank, to handle these transactions.

4.   Both started as conventional brokers, and they still are staffed to handle telephone transactions.

5.   A. Many sites that handle business transactions through a secure connection have a security certificate.

6.   A site with just a few pages of information will cost less than a site that can handle credit card transactions and provide streaming video.

7.   All the companies see big profits by earning a small amount of money for handling each transaction.

8.   Brokers for commercial banks handled more transactions last year than in years past but for less money, American Banker reported, citing a recent survey.

9.   But card readers installed in stores can handle transactions with either card.

10.   But when Bobbi Brown customers log onto the site at www.bobbibrowncosmetics.com and make a purchase, the transaction is handled by Neiman Marcus through a joint venture arrangement.