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14 November, 2008

Distra got involved in the Annual JPMorgan Chase challenge to raise money for the Oncology Childrens Foundation and The Sunrise Foundation this year in Sydney, November 12, 2008... Read more

15 October, 2008

In August 2006, Australian payments technology company, Distra Pty Ltd, entered into an exclusive arrangement with VocaLink Limited, the leading provider of payments services to banks and corporates, to provide its next generation payments technology in support of VocaLink’s infrastructure for Direct Corporate Access to the Faster Payments Service. Read more

13 October, 2008

Distra’s next generation real time payments solution, the Distra Switch, is now officially certified as PABP compliant. PABP is VISA’s standard and certification for Payment Application Best Practice. Read more

13 October, 2008

Distra, the next generation real time payments processing software provider, exhibited at this year’s premier financial services event, Sibos 2008 held September 15-19 Vienna, Austria. Read more

18 August, 2008

The UK Faster Payments Service was launched on 27 May 2008. By the end of June, 4.5 million payments had been processed for a value of £2.5 billion... Read more

12 August, 2008

"Banking on the digital economy" was the topic of discussion with Distra's CEO, Mike Aston on this week's The Scoop. Read more

08 August, 2008

VocaLink, the payment transaction specialist, announced today that its contract with Bacs Payments Schemes Limited (Bacs) to process the UK automated payments has been extended. The contract which ran to 2010 has been extended for a further five years to 2015. Read more

27 May, 2008

he UK's faster payments service, designed to provide customers with near real-time transfer of phone, Internet and standing order payment instructions - has finally gone live... Read more

27 May, 2008

VocaLink, the payment transaction specialist, announced today that the Faster Payments service has gone live with the first transactions processed successfully this morning... Read more

15 May, 2008

VocaLink, the payment transaction specialist, has today signed a contract with the Swedish national processor, BGC, to process the majority of Sweden’s automated payments... Read more