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Category: Bureau Service

Concerned about Direct Debit fraud?

April 08 2016

Do you know your customer? Direct Debit fraud … really? Yes, it is possible. While Direct Debit fraud is much rarer than, for example, credit card fraud, it does exist and, for those who collect Direct Debits (Service Users), reducing risk in collections is...

End of life on your Bacs software? What next?

September 25 2015

End-of-life’ is a term used by software suppliers to indicate that their product is coming to the end of its life. This means that they will stop marketing, selling or supporting the product. They will often encourage existing users to ‘upgrade’ to newer or...

Direct Debit Rules – Does compliance matter?

November 20 2014

Not one organisation is compliant with the Direct Debit scheme rules! From where I sit this is a statistical fact. I haven’t carried out a Direct Debit Audit for every organisation in the UK but out of the 500+ companies I have worked with, 500+ are failing to...

Reduce your Risk – Link to a Bureau

October 17 2014

Are you processing Direct Debits without being up to date with the Bacs scheme rules? Have you reviewed your Data Recovery Plan? Have you explored a relationship with a Bureau? If you answered no to any of these questions then ask yourself can your company risk the...