ABA Affiliation

The American Bankers Association (ABA) has sponsored a groundbreaking program that enables financial institutions to help solve the problem of anonymity on the Internet. The ABA governs the policy and contract infrastructure behind the TrustID digital certificate program.

The ABA policy includes guidance on areas such as liability, identification and authentication of certificate holders, certificate life-cycle operational requirements, facility management controls, technical security controls, and policy administration. With the backing of the ABA and its 125 years of protecting the interests of financial institutions and their customers, users of TrustID services can be assured of the highest standards of security, confidentiality, and the industry's best warranty.

This new policy allows financial institutions to issue their customers TrustID certificates, permitting those certificates to be used between organizations and across industry lines. With this support, digital certificates will soon become as pervasive and easy to use as credit cards. Consumers will be able to use a single digital certificate with multiple merchants and vendors, eliminating the need to establish separate digital identifications for each of the merchants and organizations they interact with online.