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 […]
This should not be beyond firms’ gift
This is the
fourth 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”.
We made the
point in Part III that firms demanded Name + Sort Code + Account Number as
mandatory information […]
Happy APPF’ing
This is the third
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 doesn’t,
not least because it fails to set out, as a baseline, what the customer’s
rights are in law now under the 2017 Payment […]
This is the
second blog out of eight in our series on the Contingent Reimbursement Model
code (“CReM”) that purports to offer customers (also known as Payment Service
Users or “PSUs”) strong protection against certain types of Authorised Push
Payment Fraud, or “APPF”.
This one is
on the types of fraud covered by the CReM.
APPF comes
in two main flavours:
The fraudsters gull […]
The UK’s
Payment Systems Regulator has announced the final version of the Contingent
Reimbursement Model code (“CReM”) with the usual fanfare. This is the code, a
year or more in the preparation, that purports to offer customers (also known
as Payment Service Users or “PSUs”) strong protection against certain types of Authorised
Push Payment Fraud, or “APPF” – the boom […]
Kiely Rowan plc, the trading entity of the Orla Kiely fashion and design business, went into administration in October 2018 with over £7 million owing to third-parties. The assets – supposedly totalling over £8 million in the accounts that were signed by the directors and the auditor in September 2017 – turned out to be […]
