See also:

• Business: Financial Services: Banking Services: Banks and Institutions: Associations  (289)
• Business: Investing: Clearing Houses and Securities Depositories  (22)
• Society: Government: Finance: Central Banks  (180)

Association for Payment Clearing Services  www.apacs.org.uk Information about UK money transmission, payments and clearings.

Australian Payments Clearing Association  www.apca.com.au APCA manages Australian payments clearing and settlement systems, policies, regulations and procedures.

Canadian Payments Association  www.cdnpay.ca Contains the rules used by Canadian deposit-taking financial institutions for clearing cheques and for electronic payments.

Clearing House Inter-Bank Payments System  www.chips.org A subsidiary of the New York Clearing House, CHIPS is a bank-owned competitor to FedWire.

Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems  www.bis.org/cpss The secretariat of the CPSS at the BIS.

Electronic Payment Services Company  www.eps.com.hk Consortium of major banks in Hong Kong dedicated to the use of electronic fund transfers to reduce cash and cheque transactions.

Electronic Payments Network  www.epaynetwork.com Private Automated Clearing House Operator owned and governed by financial institutions that provides processing services for all types of financial institutions.

European Payments Council  www.europeanpaymentscouncil.org Working towards a single payment area in the EU or in the eurozone.

South Africa - Payments Association of South Africa  www.pasa.org.za Providing a safe and sound payment system to the whole South African banking community.

SWIFT  www.swift.com Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication supplies secure messaging services and interface software to wholesale financial entities.

Swiss Euro Clearing Bank  www.secb.de Connects euroSIC, the clearing system for payments in Euro in Switzerland, to TARGET.

Swiss Interbank Clearing  www.sic.ch The central CHF payment system.