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Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic
News Cheque payments continue to decline in the UK as card transactions increase, according to UK payments association Apacs. Apacs director of communications, Sandra Quinn, said as retailers stop accepting... [12 May 2008]
Top 10 financial services stories of the year
News Apacs estimates five million contactless payment cards to be in circulation by the end of next year. While fraud on UK issued cash cards rose by 26 per cent in the first six months of... [17 Dec 2007]
'Tap and go' plastic arrives in London
News Payments industry body Apacs estimates more than five million contactless cards will be issued by the end of 2008 in the UK and that they will be accepted by at least 100,000 retailers. The MasterCard... [04 Sep 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. The growth in popularity of debit cards has outstripped... [01 Jun 2007]
Plastic for the people - cash ditched for cards
News According to figures from banking industry body Apacs, consumers spent a record level of £26.4bn per month via plastic cards in the first half of 2006. Apacs said people... [01 Aug 2006]
Plastic fantastic - the future of credit cards
News Industry body Apacs reports there are 31.6 million credit card holders in the UK today. What's important about plastic is the payments infrastructure it has created - it doesn't matter... [04 Jul 2006]
Card spending beats cash
News A spokeswoman for Apacs told silicon.com: "We're increasingly going for debit cards over cash. The figures, from banking industry body Apacs, show use of retail debit card use up nine... [19 Apr 2006]
Is fraud frightening online shoppers this Christmas?
News Sandra Quinn, director of communications at Apacs, said: "Our overall prediction is that the UK will spend less on credit cards. Although the overall use of credit... [06 Dec 2005]
Chip and PIN shifts fraud to online shops and banks
News Fraudsters snatched £58m using stolen credit cards online in the first half of this year, and plundered £14.5m from internet banking accounts, according to new figures from payments association... [08 Nov 2005]
Chip and PIN credited for £36m drop in card fraud
News Apacs is launching a four-month 'I love PIN' campaign to encourage cardholders to find out, memorise and use their PINs for all their debit and credit cards. Payment industry body... [10 Oct 2005]
Consumers spend £16bn online
News A study from the UK payments association, Apacs, found that 262 million transactions were made online last year, most of which were carried out with credit cards. In 2004,... [12 Sep 2005]
£400m card-fraud fight aided by intelligence systems
News APACS said the introduction of chip and PIN, which will replace signatures with a PIN number for verifying payments at checkouts, will help tackle fraud on lost, stolen and counterfeit cards, which... [09 Mar 2004]
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