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Online banking: Which bank is the most secure?
News According to payments industry body Apacs, online banking fraud is on the rise reaching £52.5m last year - more than double 2007's £22.6m figure. Of the 10 banks and building societies surveyed,... [28 Aug 2009]
Barclays cards make contact with RFID tech
News Apacs, a UK trade association for the payments industry, said that it was familiar with the report by the Cambridge researchers. Barclays Bank has rolled out a contactless Visa debit card. As of... [03 Mar 2009]
Banks: ID cards 'have been stripped of useful features'
News The UK payments association Apacs - whose members includes the UK's major high street banks - is worried that security features that would have made the card useful for checking identity in large money transfers and... [30 Jan 2009]
Faster payments system hits new £26bn heights
News According to payments industry association Apacs, 3.9 million FPS payments were made on 1 December 2008 - a new daily record for the service. In the first six months of operation, 63 million payments worth £26bn were... [02 Jan 2009]
Barclays contactless: More cards, more retailers
News According to payments industry association APACS, over five million contactless cards are expected to be issued by the end of 2008, with other 100,000 merchant locations available to accept them.... [08 Sep 2008]
Locking down financial security
Comment While overall card fraud is falling, instances of online fraud are rocketing, according to UK payment association Apacs. This year, banks including Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland group gave... [24 Dec 2007]
Faster bank transfers delayed to next year
News A spokesman from payment trade association Apacs, which is overseeing the project, told silicon.com: "The priority really for the industry was to agree the earliest day we could launch a reliable service.silicon.com... [15 Aug 2007]
Faster payments plan slows down
News A spokesman for UK payment trade association, Apacs - which is involved in the project - told silicon.com: "It's not common sense to launch it if we don't have 100 per cent confidence in the reliability of it. [13 Jul 2007]
Would you credit it? The debit card turns 20
News According to figures from industry group Apacs, 143 purchases are made with them every second, accounting for 6.8 billion transactions per year. With the launch of the Barclays Connect debit card on 3... [01 Jun 2007]
Banks fight e-fraudsters with two-factor authentication
News Identity theft emails, known as phishing attacks, cost banks £12m last year, according to the Association of Payment and Clearing Systems (Apacs). Apacs said online banking fraud is a growing problem. [05 Sep 2006]
Are banks doing enough to stop online fraud?
News A spokesman for Apacs, the banking industry body, told silicon.com: "If you are a victim of phishing, for example, in this country you are refunded, so it could be as much in [the banks'] interests to make sure their... [06 Jun 2006]
Banks aiming to alleviate online banking fears
Comment An Apacs spokeswoman told silicon.com: "The issue on card transactions is a different one to banking online. Apacs has recently developed a two-factor authentication standard for banks to adhere to, and... [28 Mar 2006]
Banks to cut transaction times
News The Association of Payments and Clearing Services (Apacs) has set a deadline of October this year to design a system to cope with demands for faster transactions. Paul Smee, CEO of Apacs, said: "The... [25 May 2005]
Retailers warned over £1.1bn fraud-busting scheme
News The £1.1bn scheme is backed by the British Retail Consortium and clearing house body APACS and aimed at slashing the UK's annual £424m card fraud bill by 60 per cent. All the main banks and card companies along with... [11 Sep 2003]
Egg's aggregation site aggravates high-street rivals
News HBOS has slammed the initiative, claiming it breaches the voluntary guidelines laid down by banking watchdog the Association of Payment and Clearing Services (APACS). A spokeswoman for the bank told silicon.com: "We are... [17 May 2002]
