68 results about this entity
Period: 15 Sep 2004 - 24 Feb 2010
News
Christmas shoppers are expected to spend a record £5.6 billion online during December, a 55.6% rise on the same month last year, says UK payments association Apacs.
30 November 2007
Payments association Apacs is teaming with the UK Petroleum Industry Association to launch a national card fraud prevention campaign. The move follows a spate of card cloning cases involving petrol stations across the country.
01 November 2007
UK payments association Apacs is talking up the use of electronic payments services in the wake of the new round of strikes by Royal Mail postal workers.
04 October 2007
A massive rise in fraud committed on UK cards abroad pushed up industry losses in the first half of the year, even though domestic card fraud levels fell during the period, according to industry figures released by payment association Apacs.
03 October 2007
The number of cheques written by people in the UK has halved from 2.0 billion to 1.0 billion in the last ten years, according to research by payments association Apacs, which found that volumes declined at their fastest-ever rate during 2006.
31 August 2007
Half of UK adults (51%) are "not concerned" about Internet banking fraud, according to research commissioned by British banking group Lloyds TSB.
15 August 2007
The UK banking industry has set the end of May 2008 as the revised deadline for the introduction of the new faster payments scheme, six months later than originally scheduled.
14 August 2007
The UK banking industry is to delay the launch of the Faster Payments scheme until next year, after VocaLink slipped its delivery schedule for the central system by more than four months.
12 July 2007
UK banks will begin rolling out plastic credit and debit cards featuring contactless payment technology from either Visa or MasterCard to cardholders in September.
08 May 2007
Around 400,000 UK workers will not receive their monthly salary payments as expected today because of a glitch with the Bacs automated clearing system.
30 March 2007
UK banking group Alliance & Leicester (A&L) says the number of bill payments made via its automated BillPay Web site increased by 37% in 2006 and passed the one million mark for the first time.
02 March 2007
The number of UK customers using Internet banking service has outstripped those using telephone banking for the first time, according to payments association Apacs.
05 January 2007
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