Direct Credits, or credit transfers, are automated payments from a sender’s account directly into the beneficiary’s nominated bank account. In the UK, VocaLink provides the processing services that support the Bacs Direct Credit Service. VocaLink has provided the Bacs Direct Credit for Bacs Payment Schemes Limited since 1971.

Bacs Direct Credit
Bacs Direct Credit touches millions of lives every day. In the UK, over 90% of salaries are paid this way. That’s over 20 million salary payments a month processed by the VocaLink payment platform. Most state benefits are also paid this way and in 2006, a total of 2.1 billion such payments were made by Bacs Direct Credit. The VocaLink infrastructure is scaled to handle the continued growth of this vital service.