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VocaLink Ensures Secure High-Volume Transaction Processing With Unified, Flexible Infrastructure
White Paper VocaLink is a specialist provider of transaction services to banks, their corporate customers and Government departments. To support these changes and equip itself for the future, VocaLink took the... [30 May 2009]
Faster Payments hits £53.5bn in under a year
News Overseen by Apacs and run by payments processor VocaLink and Chaps Clearing Company, the Faster Payments system is intended to allow funds to appear in the recipients' bank accounts up to two hours after a transaction... [18 May 2009]
VocaLink makes virtualisation pay
Case Study ATM operator and payment processing company VocaLink is using virtualisation to improve flexibility and reduce emissions and costs. VocaLink runs the majority of the UK's ATM network as well as... [20 Apr 2009]
AppLabs Case Study: VocaLink
White Paper VocaLink pioneered electronic payments four decades ago and has been a driving force in electronic transactions ever since. In October 2005, the contract to provide the central infrastructure for the new service was... [23 Mar 2009]
Faster payments system hits new £26bn heights
News The service is run the clearing company Chaps, over an infrastructure provided by payments processing organisation VocaLink. December was a bumper month for the Faster Payments Service (FPS). According to payments... [02 Jan 2009]
Natwest claims first with mobile money transfer
News The service is provided by Monilink, the mobile money transfer venture between mobile banking company Monitise and payments processing organisation Vocalink. NatWest has launched what it claims is the first international... [22 Dec 2008]
Lloyds TSB mobile banking goes beyond text
News The service is being run in collaboration with mobile finance network Monilink, the joint venture between banking and payments company Monitise and VocaLink, the operator of the UK ATM network. At the back end, the... [25 Sep 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Faster Payments Services
Cheat Sheet Under the new system, which is overseen by UK payments association Apacs and operated by payment processor VocaLink and Chaps Clearing Company, payments can appear in the recipient's bank account up to two hours after... [22 Sep 2008]
Banks, business suffering Sepa confusion
News According to Vocalink, which conducted the survey, a similar number of organisations said they did not expect to process any Sepa direct debits (slated for early 2010) until 2011 or later. Despite a year having passed... [16 Sep 2008]
CIOs ready for flexi-time law
News Nick Masterson-Jones, head of IT for Vocalink, said: "This is just one more manifestation of a trend whereby employers offer greater flexibility to their staff. Nick Masterson-Jones, director of IT,... [03 Sep 2008]
Open source gains business credibility
News Electronic payment body Vocalink is primarily a Java shop for in-house applications and IT director Nick Masterson-Jones said the organisation makes selective use of open source code. Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director,... [22 Feb 2008]
Careless homeworkers increase security risks
News But working from non-office locations is now a fact of life for most businesses and the risks must be mitigated against, according to Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at Vocalink. Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director,... [08 Feb 2008]
Outsourcing 'increases IT costs'
News One organisation that has cut costs through outsourcing is Vocalink. Nick Masterson-Jones, IT director at Vocalink, said: "We have focused on outsourcing work packages to trusted partners and we have... [31 Jan 2008]
HSBC rolls out free convenience store ATMs
News High street bank HSBC has struck a deal with the Federation of National Retail Newsagents (FNRN) to roll out an unspecified number of free ATMs in convenience stores across the UK, in collaboration with hardware provider... [22 Jan 2008]
Experian adds anti-fraud tool
News According to banks clearing service VocaLink, two per cent of the six billion direct debit and credit requests fail or are applied to invalid accounts every year, costing £3bn per year in repair costs. [03 Oct 2007]
