There have been several major bankruptcies in the UK recently in which ordinary, unsecured creditors have taken a major loss. These are creditors who have delivered supplies on Open Account. As soon as the delivery is accepted by the Debtor, the Creditor no longer has specific title to the goods: instead they […]
Jeremy Warner published an article in the Daily Telegraph on 9th July, taking issue with our Global Britain paper “Why the Eurozone’s fate makes an immediate Brexit vital”.
The title of
Jeremy’s article was “Claims that Britain could face a EUR200bn EU bailout bill
if it fails to execute a clean, no deal Brexit are alarmist and unwarranted”.
We […]
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There
appears to be a consensus that the world economy, and particularly parts of the
Eurozone, are slowing down or even already in recession. For Cash Managers this
is always the signal for tightening the belt, so as to ensure that their
principle objective is achieved: to have the right amount of money in the right
place […]
We have had a paper published today through the Global Britan think tank about the fate of the Eurozone.
It has been endorsed by Steve Baker MP, the former Brexit minister who sits on the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons:
“This alarming report exposes the huge contingent
liabilities with which the UK will be saddled […]
Rory “Stokpot” Stewart, the BBC’s candidate to replace Theresa May as UK Prime Minister, stormed into the second round of the contest yesterday.
He established a decisive lead over Andrea Leadsom, Esther
McVey and A.N.Other, and now proceeds full steam ahead into Tuesday’s next
round.
“I’m a lot closer to becoming PM than I was yesterday or even […]
There
have been many new entrants – usually non-banks – into the foreign exchange
business whose value proposition is to reduce or eliminate the margin that
traditional banks add to or deduct from the interbank rate in order to
determine the rate quoted to the end-user client.
If the client
is an enterprise rather than a consumer, it […]
Payment firm trying desperately to get under the CReM bar
This is the eighth and
final blog in our series on the Contingent Reimbursement Model code (“CReM”)
that purports to offer customers strong protection against certain types of
Authorised Push Payment Fraud, or “APPF”.
This one concerns the “expectations”
and “standards” that firms should abide by, if they are signatories to […]
Customer shudders under CReM responsibilities
This is the seventh blog out of eight in our series on the Contingent Reimbursement Model code (“CReM”) that purports to offer customers strong protection against certain types of Authorised Push Payment Fraud, or “APPF”.
It adds considerable
work for the customer and in doing so reduces the numbers who will be […]
Watch as customers’ rights go up in flames
This is the sixth blog out of eight in our series on the Contingent Reimbursement Model code (“CReM”) that purports to offer customers strong protection against certain types of Authorised Push Payment Fraud, or “APPF”.
In it we discuss how customers’ baseline rights in law are overlooked.
The CReM fails […]
Half of victims fall at the first fence in their attemt to get reimbursement
This is the
fifth blog out of eight in our series on the Contingent Reimbursement Model
code (“CReM”) that purports to offer customers strong protection against
certain types of Authorised Push Payment Fraud, or “APPF”.
Here we focus on who qualifies for cover, who is offering […]