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Banks seek shop for new card payment scheme.(Association for Payment Clearing Services looking for advertising agency)(Brief Article)
The Association for Payment Clearing Services is looking for an advertising agency to promote the roll-out of a new scheme which will mean consumers will use PIN numbers to verify credit card sales instead of signatures.
APACS, the banking industry trade body backed by high-street banks including Lloyds TSB and Barclays, is talking to agencies through the AAR about the 1.1 billion scheme [pounds sterling], which will require banks and retailers to replace both their back-office systems and their point-of-sale terminals.
APACS wants to develop a fully integrated campaign to support what it terms a "mass behavioural change". It intends to hire one agency to handle both above- and below-the-line creative work and will evaluate its media needs once it has appointed a creative agency.
Richard Tyson-Davies, the APACS director of public affairs, refused to comment on the spend but said it would be a long-burning campaign designed at educating ...
- iTransact.com.(adds payment clearing services)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Utah Business October 1, 2001 700+ words
...business exploded. The company now provides payment-clearing services for Internet and telemarketing companies looking...and was able to pay for it by check through a payment-clearing service. He contacted that company to create...
- APACS.(Association for Payment Clearing Services reports credit card fraud...
- Magazine article from: The Banker April 1, 2001 700+ words
...analyst Datamonitor reports that the UK is increasingly becoming a credit card society, the Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS) reports that UK plastic card fraud losses have risen. The Datamonitor report entitled UK Plastic...
- APACS On 'Skimming'.(Association for Payment Clearing Services combats credit...
- Magazine article from: The Banker November 1, 2001 700+ words
...anti-fraud initiatives. Card Watch, the banking industry's antifraud campaign run by the Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS), now works on several initiatives to combat fraud, including an industry agreement to pilot a national...
- APACS LAUNCHES CONSUMER-EDUCATION PROGRAM.(Association for Payment Clearing...
- Newspaper article from: Cardline October 15, 2004 700+ words
The Association for Payment Clearing Services, a United Kingdom-based trade association for card issuers, yesterday launched a consumer-education program for the 25...
- APACS SELECTS NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE.(Association For Payment Clearing Services...
- Newspaper article from: Cardline September 17, 2004 700+ words
The Association For Payment Clearing Services, a trade association for the United Kingdom's credit card issuers, Wednesday named Paul Smee its new chief executive. Smee...
- Smee ends speculation over ABI role.(News)(Association for Payment Clearing...
- Magazine article from: Money Marketing October 21, 2004 700+ words
...Insurers. Smee announced in September that he will be stepping down from Aifa and joining the Association for Payment Clearing Services as chief executive in December. He says he is committed to taking up his new role, silencing speculation he...
- Joint statement from the Home Office, British Retail Consortium, the...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire November 30, 2000 700+ words
...2000-UK Government: Joint statement from the Home Office, British Retail Consortium, the Association for Payment Clearing Services and Association of Chief Police Officers following a seminar on tackling cheque and payment card fraud today...
- Director general of Aifa moves on.(Association of Independent Financial...
- Magazine article from: Financial Adviser September 16, 2004 700+ words
...will leave the trade body in December this year. Mr Smee will become chief executive of the Association for Payment Clearing Services (Apacs) He has been director general of Aifa since 1999. Since then he has successfully steered the organisation...
