Standards Bodies
BASDA
BASDA, the Business Application Software Developers Association, is recognised by the European Commission, the UK Government and the United Nations. BASDA is involved in setting international standards. BASDA's eBIS-XML standard has become the world's first many-to-many eCommerce standard which allows orders and invoices to be exchanged directly between different accounting applications.
OASIS
OASIS (Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organisation along with standards for security, e-business, and standardisation efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets.
APACS
APACS, the UK payments association, is a trade association for institutions delivering payments services to end customers. It provides the forum to address co-operative aspects of payments and their development. It is also the main industry voice on issues such as plastic cards, card fraud, cheques, electronic payments and cash.
Voca
Voca is the provider of payments services for banks, processing 15% of Europe's automated payments, more than any other company. Worldwide, Voca processes payments 'end to end' for over 100,000 customers. They include every single FTSE 100 company, the UK Government and the world's top banks. On a peak day they process 77 million payments.
