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Faster Payments logo. The Faster Payments Service (FPS) is a United Kingdom banking initiative to reduce payment times between different banks' customer accounts to typically a few seconds, from the three working days that transfers usually take using the long-established BACS system.
Sort codes are the domestic bank codes used to route money transfers between financial institutions in the United Kingdom, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland. They are six-digit hierarchical numerical addresses that specify clearing banks, clearing systems, regions, large financial institutions, groups of financial institutions and ultimately resolve to individual branches.
Bacs became a subsidiary of Pay.UK (formerly known as New Payment System Operator (NPSO)) on 1 May 2018, [2] and responsibility for direct debit, Bacs Direct Credit, the Current Account Switch Service, Cash ISA Transfer Service and the Industry Sort Code Directory was given to Pay.UK. [3]
Telegraphic Transfer or telex transfer, often abbreviated to TT, is a term used to refer to an electronic funds transfer.Although the term is historic and the technology it describes is no longer in use, the telegraphic transfer name is still used today in several countries where it has become synonymous with an international SWIFT transfer.
Vocalink is a payment systems company headquartered in the United Kingdom, created in 2007 from the merger between Voca and LINK. [1] It designs, builds and operates the UK payments infrastructure, which underpins the provision of the Bacs payment system and the UK ATM LINK switching platform covering 65,000 ATMs and the UK Faster Payments systems.
The Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) is a United States private clearing house for large-value wire transfer transactions. [1] As of late 2024, it settles approximately 500,000 payments totaling US$1.8 trillion per day. [2]
By 1997 a number of countries, inside as well as outside the Group of Ten, had introduced real-time gross settlement systems for large-value funds transfers. Nearly all G-10 countries had plans to have RTGS systems in operation in the course of 1997 and many other countries were also considering introducing such systems.
The bank joined CHAPS in 2010. [2] The company has provided the Post Office card account since 2006, [3] [4] [5] acquired investment bank Cazenove in 2010 [6] and acquired London based online investment firm Nutmeg in June 2021. [7] JPMorgan Chase launched a retail banking operation in the UK in September 2021 under the Chase brand name ...