Category : Banking

Guarantee provides peace of mind for anyone switching current account September 11, 2013: The Payments Council reached a major milestone by making public the Current Account Switch Guarantee and Trustmark that will be used by all participating financial institutions, from the launch of the new service in September. The new Guarantee and Trustmark are designed...

Payments Council responds to the Report of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards Adrian Kamellard, Chief Executive of the Payments Council said: September 9, 2013: “We welcome the publication of today’s report by the PCBS – ‘Changing Banking for good’. It is a very comprehensive report and we need to now examine it in depth...

The research confirmed that the Payments Council’s new account switching service should deliver all the main features that customers have identified as being essential in any successful transfer system. September 07,2013: New research, published today, provides findings from qualitative research commissioned by the Payments Council. The research, undertaken by leading independent market research company Optimisa, was...

More people rank getting fit above paying off their credit card bill as their most pressing ‘life admin’ task September 2, 2013: Financial planning is the task we are putting off the most when it comes to our everyday ‘to-do lists’ according to a new report  released by the Payments Council, the organisation spearheading the new...