Case Study: Amnesty International UK achieves faster, more secure Bacs payments with AccessPay

How Amnesty International UK Process Bacs Payments With a Digital Bank Connection

Amnesty International UK, a London‑headquartered human rights charity with more than 7 million supporters, needed a more efficient and secure way to process hundreds of monthly Bacs payments (around 600 Direct Credits across several runs) for payroll, suppliers and staff. After being told their incumbent provider required an expensive upgrade, the charity chose AccessPay for a cloud‑based payments platform that addressed heavy manual workloads and heightened security concerns tied to their sensitive work.

AccessPay integrated the charity’s SunSystems back‑office with Bacs, automated file uploads (using SFTP) and added PGP encryption for data at rest, plus end‑to‑end encryption and attentive implementation support. The solution made payment runs faster, removed manual intervention and error risk, gave users better transaction visibility, and—per Amnesty International UK—saved “hours of manual work” on each run while maintaining robust security.

Amnesty International UK

Pascale Nicholls

Head of Central Finance