BACS
RSS BACSThales Case Study: Secure Payment Submission
White Paper BACS (Bankers Automated Clearing System), the UK ACH service, is one of the largest and most successful money transfer organisations worldwide. Its Direct Debit and Direct Credit services process over 60m payment items... [19 Sep 2009]
Faster Payments hits £53.5bn in under a year
News However, this remains a long way behind the conventional Bankers Automated Clearing Services system (Bacs), which saw more than £944bn in transactions during the first quarter of this year. In contrast, payments made... [18 May 2009]
VocaLink makes virtualisation pay
Case Study VocaLink runs the majority of the UK's ATM network as well as supporting the Bacs payment transfer system and Faster Payments Service. ATM operator and payment processing company VocaLink is using virtualisation to... [20 Apr 2009]
Best Practices for Installation of Microsoft Windows on Dell Servers With Broadcom NetXtreme Devices
White Paper The device drivers for the two device families are very different in their architecture, but both devices are supported by common management applications such as the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS), SNMP, and CIM,... [16 Mar 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Faster Payments Services
Cheat Sheet It's a big difference to the conventional Bankers Automated Clearing Services (Bacs) process, where payments can take up to three days to show up. While consumer FPS has so far been free, corporate FPS is likely to... [22 Sep 2008]
Database glitch delays salary payments
News The problem occurred when Voca's Bacs database suffered a glitch on Wednesday which caused it to slow down. UK payments association Apacs has guaranteed those affected - up to 400,000 people, or 1.6 per cent of today's... [30 Mar 2007]
Voca revs up payments engine
News The system, built by Voca for Bacs Payment Schemes and its 13 member banks, has been designed to speed up transaction clearing times and back-office processing. The system at the heart of the UK's automated payments... [25 Jul 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]
Opinion: Why I don't trust offshore customer service
Comment Being curious as to the cause and wanting to know if a client payment had made its way by Bacs into my business account, I decided to call the Barclays helpline. How comfortable are you with giving your personal details... [25 May 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]
Mega banking migration programme "a success"
News Earlier this year Bacs completed a project to migrate 100,000 customers over to a new payments system, which it now says was a "resounding success". Research by Bacs found that nine out of 10 of its... [15 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 Voca, formally known as Bacs, is working with BEA Systems, Oracle and Sun to replace mainframe computers to comply with the European policy. The European Commission is set to quiz banks on their progress at lowering the... [14 Feb 2006]
OFT to probe cheque clearing
News Members include Bacs, the Bank of England and the Association of Payment and Clearing Systems. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to scrutinise the way cheques are cleared as part of an investigation into whether faster... [08 Nov 2005]
