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John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Bank Fraud is Colossus: what can we do?

Bank Fraud was examined in clinical detail at LexisNexis ‘Trust:Live 2024 Conference. Fraud represents 49% of UK Crime. No one knows how many scammers are out there. The scale of scam messages, over 1 billion sent over the telecom networks this year, suggests a significant number of digital fraudsters. The Dedicated Card & Payment Crime Unit ...

/payments /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Greetings from New York City, where you can save money by paying in cash.

Watching a televised rugby game, Leinster playing Northampton, at an Irish pub, The Long Hall, NYC, the bill if paid in cash would be discounted. On $100, savings could have been $3.00. Incentives, in the US cash are plentiful, for example, the price of gas (petrol) is lower at the pump when cash is used. Also, at the point of payment, the cust...

/payments /regulation The Payments Business

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Global Instant Payments - the next big thing

Answering the question “what is the next big thing” well it is Global Instant Payments. The importance of this is ‘Elon Musk’s X now has a Money Transmitter License in 25 US States and the goal is a self-contained financial ecosystem within the X platform. Musk was behind PayPal ranked second in a report of 10 Best Online Payment 2024. While more...

/payments /retail The future of Payments in Europe

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Future of Payment Review – who will pay?

Future of Payment review published in 2023 on behalf of the UK Government, reflected the complexity of the current environment in the UK for instant payment. The review is clear that the UK needs to move to the next generation of instant payment with timely and accurate information. However, who will pay for that move? The Future of Payment Review...

/payments /regulation Digital Bank Transformation

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Future of Payment Review – six-months on – APP Fraud

Joe Garner’s Future of Payment review published in 2023 on behalf of the UK Government reflected the complexity of the current instant payment UK environment. The situation has allowed the UK’s early leadership in global instant payments to decline. The UK is starting to fall behind in terms of person-to-person payments made by bank account transf...

/payments /crime Operational Risk Management

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Future of Payment Review: six-months on – Digital Payment Infrastructure

Joe Garner’s Future of Payment review published in 2023 on behalf of the UK Government reflected the complexity of the current instant payment UK environment. The situation has allowed the UK’s early leadership in global instant payments to decline. The UK is starting to fall behind in terms of person-to-person payments made by bank account transf...

/payments /regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Future of Payment Review UK – six months on

Joe Garner’s Future of Payment review published in 2023 on behalf of the UK Government reflected the complexity of the current instant payment UK environment. The situation has allowed the UK’s early leadership in global instant payments to decline. The UK is starting to fall behind in terms of person-to-person payments made by bank account transf...

/payments /regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

By delaying instant payments, if suspicious, be effective?

At UK first Global Fraud Summit, HM Treasury plans to introduce legislation, only to apply to suspicious Authorised Push Payments executed within the UK in sterling. The proposed statutory instrument amends the Payment Services Regulations 2017 and allows PSPs to delay the execution of an outbound payment transaction by up to four business days fr...

/payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

EU mandatory regulation is on the money

EU mandatory regulations for instant credit transfers within the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) are right on the money. The key requirement is verification of payee. Today this is absent in the UK, apart from ten mandated banks plus a few more. IBAN (International Bank Account number) is being supplemented to identify the actual owner of the ac...

/payments /regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Will HSBC become the Google of Forex?

Brilliant start to the year with HSBC head of wealth announcing a new Foreign Exchange (Forex) app to take on Wise (1). The app is for existing and new customers wanting to make foreign exchange transactions instantly. This activity fully supports the 695th Lord Mayor of London Lecture on “Harnessing Entrepreneurship to Build a World-Class Economy...

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