2010 press releases

  • The VocaLink Take Home Pay Indices show average private sector pay growth fell by more than half in 2010

    Thursday, December 09, 2010

    The VocaLink Take Home Pay Indices show average private sector pay growth fell by more than half in 2010

  • VocaLink Take Home Pay Indices show private sector pay at 12 month high while public sector pay stagnates

    Thursday, November 04, 2010

    VocaLink Take Home Pay Indices show private sector pay at 12 month high while public sector pay stagnates.

  • Marion King, VocaLink & Craig Donaldson, Metro Bank interview

    Thursday, October 28, 2010

    Marion King, VocaLink & Craig Donaldson interview Metro Bank - SIBOS 2010

  • Fred Bar, Managing Director of Euro Services for VocaLink, is appointed president of EACHA

    Wednesday, October 27, 2010

    Following a plenary meeting on 13 October 2010, The European Automated Clearing House Association (EACHA) has elected a new Board. Fred Bar (VocaLink) has been appointed as President. Other members include Harald Stern (Equens), Jose Luis Langa (Iberpay), Corrado Borsatti (ICBPI) and Jean-Pic Berry (STET).

  • VocaLink partners with RBS to enhance processing of EUR payments into the UK

    Tuesday, October 26, 2010

    VocaLink, the international specialist payments partner, today announced that it is partnering with RBS to further improve the delivery of Euro payments to UK accounts through VocaLink’s Euro Clearing and Settlement Mechanism (CSM). In partnership with RBS as a settlement agent, banks using VocaLink’s Euro CSM service will be able to deliver payments more quickly and effectively to both Euro and Sterling beneficiaries in the UK.

  • VocaLink research shows a demand for a new mobile payments proposition

    Monday, October 25, 2010

    VocaLink, the international payment specialist, today published ‘Voice of the Customer’ research which shows the ability to make inter-bank payments immediately via a mobile phone holds a strong appeal for the modern consumer due to its speed and convenience. The research also reveals an increase in customer recognition of the Faster Payments Service. The research, conducted with consumers and small and medium enterprises during July 2010, looked to measure the appeal of making and receiving inter-bank payments, in real-time, from a mobile phone and to establish what was considered important when using such a service. The research also measured their awareness and experience of faster payments in the UK.

  • VocaLink partners with ABN AMRO for SEPA clearing services

    Monday, October 25, 2010

    VocaLink, the international payments specialist, today announced that it has selected ABN AMRO as its new Liquidity Bridge Bank. This will ensure it can continue to deliver SEPA payments to all available destinations through its interoperability agreement with EBA Clearing.

  • VocaLink Take Home Pay Indices shows public sector pay growth falls behind private sector

    Thursday, October 07, 2010

    VocaLink’s new Public Sector Take Home Pay Index, shows annual pay growth in this sector of 1.3 per cent for the three months to September. This is below the 1.4 per cent annual pay growth in the private sector as measured by the VocaLink FTSE 350 Take Home Pay Index. This is the first time since March 2009 that private sector pay growth has exceeded the public sector pay growth.

  • VocaLink Take Home Pay Index jumps to 1.3% but inflation still way ahead at 3.1%

    Thursday, September 09, 2010

    Annual growth in the VocaLink Take Home Pay Index has jumped by 0.5 percentage points in the three months to August to 1.3 per cent from 0.8 per cent over the three months to July. However, it is still short of the consumer price index (CPI) measure of inflation which stands at 3.1 per cent in July year-on-year. Over the three months to July, therefore, inflation was 2.4 percentage points higher than the VocaLink Take Home Pay Index over the same period.

  • VocaLink appoints Nick Daniel as Sales Director for Transaction Services to oversee UK and international growth

    Thursday, August 05, 2010

    Rickmansworth, 5 August 2010: VocaLink, the international payments specialists, today announces that Nick Daniel is joining the Transaction Services Division as Sales Director. Nick will report into Nick Masterson-Jones, Managing Director of Transaction Services. The appointment will help support VocaLink’s commercial growth ambitions in the UK and internationally.