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VocaLink designed the Faster Payments Central Infrastructure, which is operated on the VocaLink Real-Time Payments platform. For information on the infrastructure or platforms supporting the service, download the product sheets listed below.

The Faster Payments scheme is coordinated by APACS and is run by CHAPS Co. For information on the service or the scheme, visit the APACS web site.

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The following documents are available for download as PDFs.

Faster Payments - How it works fact sheet
A step-by-step guide to the process by which a Faster Payment is made.

Faster Payments Central Infrastructure product sheet
An overview of the central infrastructure designed and operated by VocaLink for the Faster Payments Scheme

Real-Time Payments product sheet
An overview of VocaLink real-time payments capability – the platform that can transform domestic economies and stimulate self-service banking to reduce the cost of payment processing for all participating financial institutions.

VocaLink Payment Switch product sheet
Banks and building societies connecting directly to the Faster Payments central infrastructure need the capability to send and receive Single Immediate Payments in the ISO 8583 format. VocaLink Payment Switch can accelerate and de-risk the process of connecting to the Faster Payments central infrastructure. It is quick to deploy, highly scalable and robust.