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The Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS) is the UK trade association for payment systems provided by financial institutions. It promotes standards and interoperability for systems such as BACS, CHAPS and SWIFT, which are themselves separate companies. For other meanings of the word Swift see Swift (disambiguation). ...


APACS standards define both procedural and technical practice for

  • debits (including cheques)
  • standing order mandates
  • coin packaging and banknote wrappers
  • magnetic media interchange
  • interchange data formats
  • EFTPOS device communications
  • etc

EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer Point of Sale) is a device by which sales transactions can be directly debited to the customers bank account at the point of sale, through the use of a debit card (generally the same card used with ATMs). ...

External links

  • APACS official web site (http://www.apacs.org.uk/)

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