The UK Faster Payments System is an initiative to speed up UK internet, phone and standing order payments.

Immediate Payments Ltd will be delivering this service in November 2007, more details of which can be found on the IPL website and the consortium partner websites:

• Immediate Payments Ltd
• LINK Interchange Network Ltd
• Voca
• APACS

The FPS Driver is a pre packaged VersaTest driver supporting the FPS ISO 8583 message set used by the Central Infrastructure (CI) switch provided by LINK. The driver is dual role and can be configured to simulate either FPS Members generating message traffic into the CI, or as a CI simulator generating message traffic to a member system.

The FPS Driver can be used as a standalone driver within a full copy of VersaTest or alternatively can be integrated into a larger test automation environment using Ascert's VersaTest Automation Server, including test case definition and execution from within a Mercury Quality Center environment.