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Bob Lyddon

Crummy CReM code Part VIII and the low standards for firms to meet

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 ...

17 Mar 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

Crummy CReM code Part VII and customers’ added 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 Paym...

15 Mar 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

Crummy CReM code Part VI as customers’ baseline rights are overridden

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 Payme...

14 Mar 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

Crummy CReM code Part V few customers covered, voluntary for firms, and dependent upon CoP

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 Paymen...

14 Mar 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

Crummy CReM code Part IV, and ensuring validation of mandatory data at the beneficiary firm

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 Payme...

12 Mar 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

Crummy CReM code Part III, cause of 'wrong name' APPF and customer’s current legal protection

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 Paymen...

11 Mar 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

Crummy CReM code Part II bizarre choice of types of fraud covered by it

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 protectio...

10 Mar 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

Crummy CReM code offers no comfort to UK payment fraud victims Part 1

This is the first of 8 blogs on the Contingent Reimbursement Model code (or “CReM”) that has been finalised by an offshoot of the UK’s Payment Systems Regulator called the Authorised Push Payments Sca...

08 Mar 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

Pay.uk’s Byzantine organisation promises longevity for New Payments Architecture programme

The Byzantine Empire is deemed to have emerged in 476 A.D., its being based on the residual Eastern Roman Empire at the point at which the Western one collapsed. The Byzantine Empire survived for near...

09 Feb 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

UK’s New Payments Architecture fully live by 2030, indicatively

Pay.uk have issued their February 2019 NPA Programme Industry Newsletter, entitled “Enabling a vibrant UK economy”, NPA standing for New Payments Architecture. The title should have had “…in the 2030s...

07 Feb 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

Cheques to be excluded from UK's New Payments Architecture

Once again cheques in the UK are facing their demise, this time as a consequence of their being excluded from the New Payments Architecture project, or "NPA". This time it will be a slow and...

04 Feb 2019
Transaction Banking
Bob Lyddon

Project Carlton research - a stock take on the PSR and PSF 2014-2018 and the cupboard is bare

Project Carlton has been conceived as a stock take of the efforts to reform the UK payments business since 2014 and to evaluate the case for a change in direction. The reform efforts have been spearhe...

28 Jan 2019
Transaction Banking

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