109 results about this entity
Period: 09 Mar 2007 - 14 Sep 2017
News
Coronation Street's Gail McIntyre has only herself to blame for the imminent loss of £40,000 in an online banking scam, says the UK Payments Council
29 January 2013
The UK banking sector is gearing up for the introduction of an industry-wide mobile payments service next spring, with eight major institutions committed to the launch.
15 January 2013
Elderly and disabled Brits face significant barriers in accessing and using payment systems, often forced to resort to workarounds such as sharing cards and PINs, according to research from the Payments Council.
25 October 2012
Forget mobile payments, the next wave of innovation to strike the payments industry could see a simple handshake emerge as a novel form factor in the transfer of cash, according to a new crystal ball-gazing report from the UK Payments Council.
10 October 2012
Following last year's bungled and abandoned attempt to scrap cheques, the bank-run UK Payments Council is set to be stripped of its powers by the government.
23 July 2012
With mobile money becoming increasingly important, the UK's Faster Payments Scheme has hired telecoms industry veteran Craig Tillotson as its first managing director.
12 June 2012
An old-style scam that sees victims conned into handing over their bank cards and PINs to couriers is on the rise, netting British fraudsters £750,000 so far this year, the Payments Council is warning.
23 May 2012
Britons sent two-thirds more money through Faster Payments in the last three months of 2011 than in the fourth quarter of 2010, as the much maligned service took root.
19 March 2012
Fraud losses on UK debit and credit cards fell seven per cent in 2011 to £341 million, an 11-year low, according to figures from the UK Cards Association.
07 March 2012
The UK Payments Council has commissioned VocaLink to build a central database that will allow bank customers to link their mobile phone number to their account for person-to-person mobile payments.
21 February 2012
After forcing a humiliating climb-down on the abolition of cheques, UK politicians are now calling on the Payments Council to bring back the cheque guarantee scheme alongside proposals to tighten regulation of the bank-run body and interbank payments in general.
16 November 2011
Following its bungled and abandoned attempt to scrap cheques, the UK Payments Council looks set to face new government-imposed regulations.
11 November 2011
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