Payment Associations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Swiss Interbank Clearing - The central CHF payment system.
http://www.sic.ch/

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