Faster Payments Service
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(FPS).
UK process for electronic payments, typically made via the internet or phone, to be processed in hours rather than days.
It allows credit transfers and standing orders to be paid in near real time. There is a maximum transaction amount. It is operated by VocaLink 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Upgrades required to Faster Payments System
- "... the newly established Payments Vision Delivery Committee will, through work led by the Bank of
England and PSR, clarify the upgrades required to the existing Faster Payments System, assess longer-term requirements and the appropriate funding and governance arrangements needed to deliver this – including proposals to reform Pay.UK"
- UK National Payments Vision, November 2024, p9.
- Instant payments for corporates?
- "... in a live proving exercise a [UK] Faster Payment valued in the tens of millions of pounds was sent and received.
- In comparison, SCT Inst has started with a EUR 15,000 limit, and the US Real-time Payments System caps transactions at USD 25,000."
- The Treasurer magazine, April 2018, p23 - In Search of the Tipping Point.
See also
- BACS
- C&CCC
- Clearing House Automated Payment System
- CPA
- Electronic commerce
- ERPS
- Faster Payments Scheme
- Immediate Payment Service (IMPS)
- Immediate payments and the impact on corporate treasurers
- LVPS
- National Payments Vision (UK)
- New Payments Platform (NPP)
- Pay.UK
- Payment service provider (PSP)
- Payment Systems Regulator (PSR)
- Payments and payment systems
- Real-time Payments
- Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)
- Single Immediate Payment
- Tipping point