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News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Scotiabank delivers Canada Post EBPP service to online customers

Canada's Scotiabank is providing its online customers with access to epost, an electronic mail and bill presentment and payment service provided by the national postal service.

20 January 2005

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

OneVu turns to Web simulation to promote EBPP service to banks and billers

OneVu, the electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) service set up by Voca and CheckFree last year, is using Web site simulation technology from VeriSIM in a bid to persuade more banks and billers to sign up to the scheme.

19 January 2005

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Euro central banks play hard ball over single payments area

Euro area central banks have warned the banking industry against backsliding on committments to deliver a Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) by the end of the decade, amid mounting evidence that support for the project is on the wane.

03 December 2004

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Bacs rebrands as Voca

Bacs Limited, the UK's automated clearing house, has changed its name to Voca. The move is designed to reinforce the 2003 re-structure of Bacs, which has seen it take a more commercial focus. Bacs Payment Schemes Limited remains as the UK's membership-based industry body for promoting and supporting the direct debit and direct payment schemes.

12 October 2004

News/Electronic bill presentment and payment

Upaid launches SMS bill payment service

French m-payments technology vendor Upaid has launched Text cheque, an SMS-based service that enables merchants to accept bill payments made using mobile phones.

23 September 2004