Top 10 Deals of The Month

Mc/Gemplus/mondex

These smart card proponents, among others, formed a consortium to launch a multi-application smart card platform.

ViSA/mc

The two credit card associations selected Certco, the Bankers Trust spin-off, with hardware provider Spyrus, to be their certificate authority for the SET protocol.

EDS

Electronic Data Systems Corp. won a $700 million deal to handle Electronic Broking Services's forex network.

E-TRADE

An alliance with CyberCash will allow E-Trade investors to use CyberCoins to buy a peek at on-line publications.

CheckFree

The electronic banking and bill payment processor signed a five-year deal with Barnett Bank to provide bank customers with electronic bill pay.

CoreStates Financial Corp.

Andersen Consulting will take over about 40 percent of the banking service company's technology operations in an information technology alliance.

Fair, Isaac & Co.

The retail credit scoring company bought Risk

Management Technologies (RMT), a privately held software company, for

$46 million.

3COM

The network connectivity leader will form an alliance with TIBCO Inc. to improve network performance of push computing.

AFS&LSC

The software developer signed a joint marketing agreement with CheckFree to unite the companies' products.

Motorola

The wireless communications and semiconductor giant invested $13.5 million in Certicom Corp., known for its cryptography.