149 results about this entity
Period: 02 Jan 2002 - 05 Nov 2024
News/payments
Figures from UK Finance show that the British public are sitting on piles of loose change worth an estimated £50 million.
03 September 2021
Company announcement/payments
Leading brands in the world of open banking today announced an important new open banking challenge: The VRP Hackathon.
02 September 2021
Brits will be able to make contactless payments of up to £100 from 15 October, UK Finance has confirmed.
27 August 2021
In 2021, members of UK Finance outlined an ambitious ten-year strategy for the payments industry with the publication of the Future Ready Payments 2030 report.
11 August 2021
During 2020 the number of contactless payments made in the UK increased by 12% to 9.6 billion payments, with the pandemic driving a mass-market switch away from physical cash.
16 June 2021
Company announcement/security
Police have made eight arrests following a series of early morning operations targeting individuals suspected of sending out “smishing” texts.
24 May 2021
UK Finance analysis of nearly seven thousand authorised push payment1 (APP) scam cases shows that 70 per cent of scams originated on an online platform2 — highlighting the internet’s significant role in enabling fraud.
14 May 2021
Thousands of supermarket and shops around the UK have signed up to a cash-friendly pledge from consumer champion Which?, guaranteeing that they will continue to accept notes and coins as an alternative to digital payments.
13 May 2021
News/regulation
UK Finance, Which?, and City of London Police are among a host of organisations to sign on to a letter calling for the government to include online scams in its new 'Online Safety' bill.
07 May 2021
News/security
UK Finance has announced a change to the process of reimbursing ‘no blame’ cases of authorised push payment (APP) scams, bringing in a process which enables signatory banks to individually pay back cases rather than through a shared central pot.
30 April 2021
The amount of money lost to victims of authorised push payments fraud in the UK rose to £479 million in 2020, as criminals used the Covid-19 pandemic to target people online.
26 March 2021
News/crime
UK Trade organisations, consumer groups and a senior MP have joined forces to call on the UK government to reverse its decision not to include online scams in its new 'Online Harms' bill.
12 March 2021
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