Press releases

• Payments Council Welcomes Handelsbanken
  18 Aug 2010
• National Payments Plan – a two-year progress update
  18 Jun 2010
• New report shows trends in cash and cash machine usage
  4 Jun 2010
• Payments Council and Accenture launch a customer authentication evaluation tool
  22 Apr 2010
• New Report Reveals Massive Change in the Ways We Pay over the Last Decade
  14 Apr 2010
• New Payments Council Chairman appointed
  30 Mar 2010
• Online tool extended to help customers check payment options
  25 Mar 2010
• Payments Council comments on the Treasury Select Committee's inquiry into cheque closure decision
  12 Feb 2010
• Payments Council welcomes three new members
  1 Feb 2010
• Latest study shows that where we live shapes how we pay
  23 Dec 2009
• 2018 target date set for closure of central cheque clearing
  16 Dec 2009
• New statistics show spending remains static over last quarter
  30 Nov 2009
• Payments Council announces appointment of interim Chairman
  16 Nov 2009
• Chairman of Payments Council announces departure
  20 Oct 2009
• Payments Council offers advice for managing payments during the postal strike
  16 Oct 2009
• Launch of industry guidance for the Payment Services Regulations
  13 Oct 2009
• Payments Council publishes Financial Inclusion Policy
  2 Oct 2009
• Payments Council publishes response to the OFT’s review of progress
  11 Aug 2009
• Payments Council sets a time frame for withdrawing the guarantee scheme for cheques
  25 Jun 2009
• The Payments Council produces best practice guidelines on the format of account numbers
  2 Jun 2009
• Payments Council welcomes OFT view that “the Payments Council has proved a success”
  25 Mar 2009
• Countdown to Payment Services Directive
  9 Mar 2009
• The Payments Council publishes a progress update on their National Payments Plan
  3 Mar 2009
• Companies sought by Payments Council to help develop UK mobile payments proposition
  28 Jul 2008
• Payments Council launches first national plan for UK payments
  14 May 2008
• Payments Council launches consultation on National Payments Plan
  26 Nov 2007
• Payments Council comments on announcement regarding the delay to the Faster Payments Service
  12 Jul 2007
• ‘Payments Council’: The new name setting payments strategy in the UK
  21 Mar 2007
• Response to the OFT's Review of Progress