Our aims and objectives

The aims and objectives of The UK Cards Association are summarised below:

• Promote best practice across the card payment industry
• Work to influence card industry and credit industry issues
• Seek to change perceptions of the UK card payments industry
• Offer specialised knowledge on card payments issues
• Be acknowledged as the definitive source for key management information and industry statistics
• Represent industry views to Government, the European Commission; regulators; the media; and other influential stakeholders

On behalf of our members, we strive to:

• Build the future of the card payments industry, facilitating innovation in line with members’ requirements
• Facilitate collaboration on non-competitive industry wide issues including fraud prevention and security; public relations and public affairs; responsible lending and data sharing; rollout of infrastructure etc
• Represent and clearly promote the views and interests of its members
• Champion its members as drivers of business and commerce
• Reinforce its members’ reputation and project a positive industry image
• Maintain the UK’s leading position in the development of card payments globally
• Build alliances and relationship with key decision makers and opinion formers
• Highlight to key stakeholders the economic importance of card payments to commerce in the UK
• Facilitate its members’ views in to Europe and internationally
• Provide one, consistent voice for its members
• Act as a trusted advisor to legislators and regulators (as much as any partisan trade association can)

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