by Robert Tripp | Aug 21, 2007 | Articles, Gateways to the Banking Industry
Impact on Competition The PSD creates a new legal figure, the Payment Institution. The Payment Institution is an organisation that provides payments services based on one of the instruments covered by the PSD and in one of the geographies covered by the PSD. In...
by Robert Tripp | Aug 21, 2007 | Articles, Gateways to the Banking Industry, General
The diagram below illustrates the relation between the PSD and other initiatives such as SEPA , EC2560 and UK Faster Payments. As can be seen it is broader in scope than any of these ideas; indeed it forms the overarching legal framework for virtually all payments...
by Robert Tripp | Jan 22, 2007 | Articles, Banking Product Engines, Gateways to the Banking Industry
This article was correct up to the end of 2019. A new process described in (Post 2019 Agency Bank Cheque Clearing) was introduced in 2018 and has been placed in parallel with the process described here. After 2019, only the new process will be in place. The...
by Robert Tripp | Jan 22, 2007 | Articles, Banking Product Engines, Gateways to the Banking Industry
This article was correct up to the end of 2019. A new process described in (Post 2019 UK Cheque Clearing Process) was introduced in 2018 and has been placed in parallel with the process described here. After 2019, only the new process will be in place. The UK...
by Robert Tripp | Jan 21, 2007 | Articles, Banking Product Engines, Gateways to the Banking Industry
In November 2006, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), a branch of the UK Government and APACS jointly announced changes to the UK Cheque Clearing System. Who will blink first, the OFT, the Clearers or the Agency Banks? To explain how we come to this conclusion we break...
by Robert Tripp | Nov 22, 2006 | Articles, Gateways to the Banking Industry
UK banks have to do quite a bit of work to support SEPA. Furthermore, they have some options which go beyond “complying” with SEPA to exploit it. To explain this we have broken this article into four parts: What’s SEPA? What do UK banks have to do as a minimum? What...
