File Transfer Protocol (FTP), 34, 115
Financial Information Exchange (FIX), 38
financial services industries, 132–135
banking in, 132–134
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in, 133
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), 134
insurance industry in, 134–135
legacy systems in, 133
security in, 134
Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC), 38
finding (see discovery of services)
FinXML Consortium, 38
firewalls, 14, 27
FITS, 150
Flamenco Networks, 199
flexibility of Web services, 7–8, 26, 63, 93–94, 171–174
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 129
Ford, 128
Forrester Research, on Web services, 114–115
fpML, 38
“friction-free enterprise” concept, 92–93
Fujitsu, 55
future of Web services, 207–208