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RSS apacs in newsSainsbury's banks £3.5m on ATM security
News Research from banking industry body Apacs, found that cash machine fraud during the first three months of 2006 totalled £21.4m - an increase of 54 per cent compared to 2005 figures. Sainsbury's Bank is investing £3.5m to... [30 Aug 2006]
Is chip and PIN really a success?
News The figures from banking industry group Apacs show that UK banks have issued 130 million chip and PIN cards - a figure that equates to 92 per cent of 141 million cards. Apacs said that as a result of the... [15 Aug 2006]
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. A spokesman for Apacs told silicon.com: "It's just... [01 Aug 2006]
Banks to cancel paedophile credit cards
News The change in the law comes after collaboration between payments industry body Apacs, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, the Department for Constitutional Affairs, the Home Office and children's charities. [20 Jul 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. Shortly before Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup at Wembley 40 years ago, a small team of people in a converted Northampton shoe... [04 Jul 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]
Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
News A £1m chip and PIN fraud at a Shell petrol station was "an inside job", according to UK payments body Apacs. But a spokeswoman from Apacs told silicon.com criminals must have had easy access to PIN pads... [08 May 2006]
Card spending beats cash
News The figures, from banking industry body Apacs, show use of retail debit card use up nine per cent on 2004 figures of £82bn. A spokeswoman for Apacs told silicon.com: "We're increasingly going for debit... [19 Apr 2006]
Asda does away with cheques
News According to research from Apacs, the voice of the banking industry, cheque usage is declining rapidly. By 2004 that number had halved to six million a day, and Apacs predicts that in 2014 just 3.5... [03 Apr 2006]
Attorney general gets tough on fraud
News Since the introduction of chip and PIN technology in the UK, card fraud has fallen by 13 per cent to £439.4m in the 12 months, according to the latest figures from payments industry body Apacs. The government is to... [23 Mar 2006]
Online child abuse - a decade on and the IWF reports progress
News He criticised those coming up with systems, albeit intended for other purposes, that allow anonymous surfing of the web but praised payments outfits MasterCard, Switch, Visa and even Apacs for their "work behind the... [09 Mar 2006]
Chip and PIN leads to fall in UK card fraud
News UK card fraud has fallen by 13 per cent to £439.4m in the 12 months since the introduction of chip and PIN technology, according to the latest figures from payments industry body Apacs. Apacs figures on... [07 Mar 2006]
Alliance and Leicester to boost online security
News Apacs, the industry body for the payments industry, was last year due to announce a two-factor authentication standard that all banks would use. Apacs recently told silicon.com the standard is "more or... [28 Feb 2006]
ATM charges to go under the microscope
News Around 33 million people used cash machines in 2004 and £5,000 was withdrawn every second, according to figures from Apacs, the industry body for the banking industry. Charges for using cash machines are to be put under... [17 Feb 2006]
Chip and PIN doesn't mean the end of the war on card fraud
News Figures from banking industry body Apacs suggest 99 per cent of all cardholders have at least one chip and PIN card and 2.85 billion PIN-verified transactions took place in 2005. A spokeswoman for Apacs... [07 Feb 2006]
