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RSS vocaVoca Supports Over 100 Million Global Transactions Each Day With New Technology Platform
White Paper Founded in 1968, Voca, formerly BACS Limited, is one of the world's largest and most advanced providers of payments services to banks and corporates. Voca wanted to replace existing technology... [06 Oct 2006]
CIO Jury: The global IT department
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director, Voca Just last week Norwich Union announced it will be outsourcing more IT jobs to India and the company's CIO Alex Robinson told silicon.com: "I expect IT in a big business like ours... [18 Sep 2006]
CIO Jury: India can challenge the 'big six'
News Likewise, Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at payments body Voca, said: "Our outsourcing experience with our two Indian IT services providers - Perot and Wipro - has been first-rate. Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director,... [03 Aug 2006]
Voca revs up payments engine
News Earlier this month Voca went live with its new payments engine, which will process 5.5 billion transactions (worth £3tr) per year. The system, built by Voca for Bacs Payment Schemes and its 13 member... [25 Jul 2006]
CIO Jury: SOA ready for prime time
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director, Voca Businesses are gearing up to adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA), citing tangible benefits resulting from a more agile and responsive IT infrastructure. Two-thirds of... [14 Jul 2006]
CIO Jury: Is it safe to use small IT suppliers?
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director, Voca Small suppliers can be a more cost-effective source of innovation and cutting-edge technologies than the traditional big vendors, though there are also some risks involved,... [06 Jul 2006]
CIO Jury: Bosses play safe with big IT vendors
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director, Voca The famous saying in IT is 'You never get sacked for buying IBM' and more than half (seven) of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said there is still pressure both... [22 Jun 2006]
CIO Jury: Do mobile technologies make us too connected?
News Another problem that is aggravated by greater mobile connectivity, according to Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at payments body Voca (formerly Bacs), is getting people to "mentally disconnect" from work when they are... [01 Jun 2006]
CIO Jury: 'Gas-guzzling' PCs pose IT power issues
News Environmental and climate issues will be the main drivers for this pressure to reduce energy consumption rather than cost alone, according to Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at payments processor Voca (formerly Bacs). [17 May 2006]
Carphone Warehouse to sell top-ups by text
News Digital Payments is a joint venture between card fraud analysis company Retail Decsions, payment processing company Voca (formerly known as Bacs) and Mi-Pay, a micropayments and mobile pre-pay company. [13 Mar 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Sepa
Cheat Sheet Saying that, Voca, the payments organisation formally known as Bacs, is already revamping its infrastructure to accommodate future demands of Sepa. What's that? Back in 2000, European political big wigs got together in... [14 Feb 2006]
EC to quiz banks on payment plans
News In the UK payment processing company Voca is already changing its IT infrastructure in a bid to meet the standard. Voca, formally known as Bacs, is working with BEA Systems, Oracle and Sun to replace... [14 Feb 2006]
CIO Jury: Techies put computers before Cupid
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT programmes director at Voca, said: "In fact, to get out of an over-priced Hallmark holiday 'celebration', I might be tempted to invent an excuse. Nick Masterson-Jones, IT programmes director,... [13 Feb 2006]
CIO Jury: Does 'geek' stereotype still dog IT execs?
News Nick Masterson-Jones, IT programmes director, Voca Getting boxed into technology roles is still a barrier to career progress for many IT workers, according to UK IT execs. IT training companies have this week reported... [26 Jan 2006]
5,000 companies miss vital IT project deadline
News On 1 January the old payment system run by Voca was switched off and replaced with Bacstel-IP, which is designed to cope with a greater number of transactions. Despite the warnings from Voca many... [10 Jan 2006]
