109 results about this entity
Period: 09 Mar 2007 - 14 Sep 2017
News
The person-to-person mobile payments service being prepped by Britain's banks for a launch later this year has been christened Paym.
10 March 2014
The Payments Council is forecasting a bumper Christmas for retailers as it estimates that spending on cards, cash and cheques will reach £82.7bn in December, an increase of 1.2% from 2012 (£81.7bn).
22 November 2013
About 89,000 Brits have switched their bank account provider in the four weeks since a new system designed to make the process quicker and easier was introduced.
22 October 2013
The UK government is setting up a utilities-style payments regulator in a bid to make it easier and cheaper for new entrants to take on the high street banks.
10 October 2013
A new system designed to make it easier and quicker for Brits to switch their current account from one bank to another launches today but politicians are still pushing for the industry to go further and bring in full account number portability.
16 September 2013
Gazing into its crystal ball, the UK's Payments Council predicts that Brits will turn their backs on cash over the next 10 years as plastic cards continue their ascent and mobile money becomes a mainstream player.
19 August 2013
A new system designed to make it easier and quicker for Brits to switch their current account from one bank to another will launch next month.
16 August 2013
The UK Payments Council is to develop a Payments Roadmap, setting out key strategic short-term and long-term goals for restructuring the nation's payments infrastructure over the next three, five and ten years.
17 June 2013
The UK banking industry is promising hassle-free account switching services for consumers following a £750 million spend on systems changes and a national advertising campaign.
11 June 2013
Cash use in the UK increased last year, breaking the longer-term trend of falling cash volumes year-on-year seen over most of the last decade.
10 June 2013
The UK government is preparing to bring in a utility-style regulator for retail payment systems, putting an end to the current practice of industry self-policing.
26 March 2013
The debit card may have usurped cash in the UK over the last decade but it could be supplanted itself within years by the mobile phone, predicts the Payments Council.
20 February 2013
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