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Faster Payments. The Faster Payments Service ( FPS) is a United Kingdom banking initiative to reduce payment times between different banks' customer accounts to typically a few seconds, from the three working days that transfers usually take using the long-established BACS system. CHAPS, which was introduced in 1984, provides a limited faster ...
Authorization hold (also card authorization, preauthorization, or preauth) is a service offered by credit and debit card providers whereby the provider puts a hold of the amount approved by the cardholder, reducing the balance of available funds until the merchant clears the transaction (also called settlement), after the transaction is completed or aborted, or because the hold expires.
Santander UK plc ( UK: / ˌsæntənˈdɛər, - tæn -/, US: / ˌsɑːntɑːnˈdɛər /) [3] is a British bank, wholly owned by the Spanish Santander Group. Santander UK plc manages its affairs autonomously, with its own local management team, responsible solely for its performance. Santander UK is one of the leading personal financial services ...
The sort code is usually formatted as three pairs of numbers, for example 12-34-56. It identifies both the bank (in the first digit or the first two digits) and the branch where the account is held. [1] Sort codes are encoded into International Bank Account Numbers (IBANs) but are not encoded into Business Identifier Codes (BICs).
Standing order (banking) A standing order (or a standing instruction) is an instruction a bank account holder ("the payer") gives to their bank to pay a set amount at regular intervals to another's ("the payee's") account. The instruction is sometimes known as a banker's order . They are typically used to pay rent, mortgage or any other fixed ...
The Cheque and Credit Clearing Company Limited (C&CCC) is a UK membership-based industry body whose 11 members are the UK clearing banks.The company has managed the cheque clearing system in England and Wales since 1985, in all of Great Britain since 1996 when it took over responsibility for managing the Scottish cheque clearing as well, and in the whole of the United Kingdom since the ...
Banking. A giro transfer, often shortened to giro ( / ˈdʒaɪroʊ, ˈʒɪəroʊ / ), [1] is a payment transfer from one current bank account to another bank account and initiated by the payer, not the payee. [2] The debit card has a similar model. Giros are primarily used in Europe; although electronic payment systems exist in the United ...
Mastercard Maestro is a brand of debit cards and prepaid cards owned by Mastercard that was introduced in 1991. [1] Maestro is accepted at around fifteen million point of sale outlets in 93 countries. [2] On July 1 2023 Mastercard began phasing out Maestro across Europe. European banks and other card issuers are now required to replace expired ...