Payment_Associations

	Australian Payments Clearing Association : APCA manages Australian payments clearing and settlement systems, policies, regulations and procedures. - www.apca.com.au/
	Canadian Payments Association : Contains the rules used by Canadian deposit-taking financial institutions for clearing cheques and for electronic payments. - 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. - www.chips.org/
	Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems : The secretariat of the CPSS at the BIS. - www.bis.org/cpss/
	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. - www.eps.com.hk/
	Electronic Payments Network : Private Automated Clearing House Operator owned and governed by financial institutions that provides processing services for all types of financial institutions. - www.epaynetwork.com/
	European Payments Council : Working towards a single payment area in the EU or in the eurozone. - www.europeanpaymentscouncil.org/
	South Africa - Payments Association of South Africa : Providing a safe and sound payment system to the whole South African banking community. - www.pasa.org.za/
	SWIFT : Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication supplies secure messaging services and interface software to wholesale financial entities. - www.swift.com/