he transactions as they occur. In the mean time,1. Watch for advances in visual recognition hardware / neural networks. When available, commercially produced visual recognition systems will greatly enhance the security of automated financial transactions. 2. Computer aided voice recognition is already a reality. This technology should be implemented in automated telephone account inquiries. The feasibility of adding phone transactions should also be considered. Cooperation among financial institutions could result in secure transfers of funds between banks when ordered by the customers over the telephone.3. Handwriting recognition by OCR systems should be combined with existing check processing systems. These systems can reject checks that are possible forgeries. Investigators could follow-up on the OCR rejection by making appropriate inquiries with the check writer....