We inform and engage with stakeholders to advance the industry for the ultimate benefit of our members' consumer and retail customers. Our work includes formulating policy on non-competitive aspects of card payments including codes of practice, fraud prevention, major infrastructural changes, and the development of standards.
What's New: New Card and Banking Fraud Figures
What’s New: The UK Cards Association publishes its response to the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) Credit & Store Cards Review
What’s New: The UK Cards Association Response to "Chip and PIN is broken"
What's New: The UK Cards Association Response to Recent Press Coverage on Credit Card Interest Rates
WHO WE ARE
The UK Cards Association is a trade body that gives credit, debit and charge card issuers, and merchant acquiring banks a forum where they can work together on non-competitive issues. It was formed in April 2009 as the successor body to the APACS Card Payments Group.
WHAT WE DO
We inform and engage with stakeholders to advance the industry for the ultimate benefit of our members’ consumer and retail customers. Our work includes preventing card fraud, contributing to legislative changes, collating industry statistics and developing industry standards and best practices.
WHAT WE SAY
The UK Cards Association campaigns on key industry issues and continues the APACS tradition as being the definitive source of industry statistics and management information. We commission studies, reviews and market research to facilitate and inform discussions with external parties.
