New reports reveal all about payments in the UK

UK Payments Statistics 2010 and UK Plastic Cards 2010, two reports published by the Payments Council and The UK Cards Association, reveal all you ever wanted to know about payments in the UK.

UK Payments Statistics 2010 provides a comprehensive source of UK payment statistics and historical data from 1999 to 2009, with additional forecast data up to and including 2019.

UK Plastic Cards 2010 brings together information on how many cards we have and what we spend our money on, both in the high street and online. It also includes demographic details of personal plastic card spending habits, and forecasts how our use of plastic cards is expected to change over the next ten years

Copies of UK Payments Statistics 2010 are available for purchase at £750, and copies of UK Plastic Cards 2010 are available for purchase at £250. To purchase a publication, please contact press@ukpayments.org.uk

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For further information, contact the press office on 020 3217 8316 or press@ukpayments.org.uk

NOTE TO EDITORS

A complimentary copy of UK Plastic Cards 2010 and UK Payment Statistics is available for journalists and libraries upon request. Further copies can be purchased for £250 and £750 respectively. Please contact press@ukpayments.org.uk to order copies.

About the Payments Council
The Payments Council is the organisation that sets strategy for UK payments. It has been established to ensure that UK payment systems and services meet the need of users, payment service providers and the wider economy. The Payments Council publishes authoritative data on how many payments are made and how we make them. Our publications due to be published include UK Automated Payments 2010, UK Cheques 2010 and UK Consumer Payments 2010. For more information on these publications please visit our website. Payments Council has 29 members and 15 associate members.
www.paymentscouncil.org.uk

About The UK Cards Association
The UK Cards Association is the leading trade association for the cards industry in the UK. With a membership that includes all major credit, debit and charge card issuers, and card acquiring banks, the role of the Association is both to unify and represent the UK card payments industry. It is responsible for formulating and implementing policy on non-competitive aspects of card payments including codes of practice, card fraud prevention, major infrastructural changes, development of standards and other matters where cross-industry benefits are identified. The UK Cards Association was formed in April 2009. The UK Cards Association also publishes authoritative data concerning the use of plastic cards in the UK in its publication UK Plastic Cards 2010, which is due for publication.
www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk