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John Bertrand

Reimbursement of APP Scams: Boost for consumers/SMEs

The Payment Systems Regulator issued Specific Requirement 1 on the Faster Payments Scheme Operator (Pay.UK) to insert APP scam reimbursement into Faster Payments. The timetable as follows: Action Fina...

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Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
John Bertrand

UK Finance Annual Mortgage Dinner and The New Mortgage Charter

An exhilarating evening was held with the members of the mortgage industry on 12 December with people dressed in black tie. The mood was set by the Director of Mortgages for UK Finance and further ext...

17 Dec 2023
Digital Banking, Mortgages and Savings
John Bertrand

Cyber Wars Going Infinite: Buckle Up

The Michael Lewis book, Going Infinite, The Rise And Fall of A New Tycoon and Erica Stanford’s earlier book Cyber Wars, reflect an accurate but disturbing picture of this unregulated market. At times...

30 Oct 2023
Innovation in Financial Services
John Bertrand

Accelerating the use of Instant Payments

European instant payments were introduced in 2017 and by 2022 represented 14% of all SEPA credit transfers. Across the 29 counties, some have yet to start while others, led by the Netherlands, have re...

29 Sep 2023
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
John Bertrand

Global trends for Faster Payments

The trends emerging with Instant Payment Systems are: 1. Increasing in-country systems being released and promoted The latest major country to introduce instant payments is the USA. The Federal Re...

21 Aug 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
John Bertrand

APP Fraud: UK Government and UK Supreme Court at odds: what shall we do as scams jump 24%?

In June the UK Government gave royal assent to allow the Payment System Regulator (PSR) to mandate reimbursements for scam victims. Consumer and small enterprises (<£5 million revenue) are to recei...

12 Aug 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
John Bertrand

Supreme Court, July 2023, only where validity of instruction is unclear bank to use Duty of Care

Under the new ruling, when a bank receives a valid payment request with no room for interpretation or choice, the bank must execute the order. That means if the owner of the bank account authorises a ...

16 Jul 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
John Bertrand

Instant cross-border payments, with G20 recommendation, are coming.

A superb discussion at EBAday 2023 was on the move to real-time cross border payments everywhere. Movement from next day payment delivery into the bank account to within an hour to become the new norm...

09 Jul 2023
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
John Bertrand

Instant Payments, Global platforms choices, accelerating scams: Action essential

Having two real time systems in the UK – CHAPS and Faster Payments - is a bonus. The task is to see how they can work together against the growing demand for instant payments regardless of amount and ...

09 Jun 2023
EBAday
John Bertrand

Association of Corporate Treasures (ACT) March 23 Cash Management Conference

The ACT Cash Management conference held in London last week was a well attended, outstanding event covering many issues facing the Corporate Treasures, banks and our selves in these uncertain times. ...

27 Mar 2023
Treasury Management
John Bertrand

Will Payment Service Providers (PSP) prosper going forward?

As domestic payment fees 'go towards zero', how will PSP make any monies from the payments business, especially if the PSP is a non-bank1 and is OpenBanking an opportunity or challenge to PSPs? Taking...

06 Jan 2023
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