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Pay.UK Board ditches main benefit of ISO20022 adoption

Published on 8 August 2019

Pay.UK was set up to deliver a New Payments Architecture (“NPA”) for the UK, implementing the blueprint that was passed to them by the Payment Strategy Forum.

NPA would be based on the usage of the ISO20022 XML data format to enable rich data to flow up and down the payment chain […]

Can SWIFT’s Global Payment Initiative (“gpi”) help with KPIs on timing and cost of cross-border payments?

Published on 5 August 2019 and previously by AccountingCPD.net

On the face
of it, SWIFT’s Global Payment Initiative, or “gpi”, should make a major
contribution to monitoring the cost and time expended on cross-border payments.

SWIFT
claims that US$40 trillion of payments were sent over gpi in 2018, that 3,500+
banks have signed up to it, and that over US$300bn […]

How to avoid credit losses on Open Account trade

Published on 30 July 2019 and previously by AccountingCPD.net

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 […]

Daily Telegraph declines to print response to their critique of our Global Britain paper – but the evidence keeps mounting up

Published on 16 July 2019

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 […]

Usefulness of faster payment schemes for Cash Management in an economic recession

Published on 4 July 2019 and previously by AccountingCPD.net

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 […]

How huge financial liabilities require a quick, clean Brexit

Published on 28 June 2019

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 […]

New entrants to the Foreign Exchange market impact the “Pips around the interbank rate” Key Performance Indicator

Published on 11 June 2019 and previously by AccountingCPD.net

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 […]

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

Published on 17 March 2019

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 the
code. Firms […]

Crummy CReM code Part VII and customers’ added responsibilities

Published on 15 March 2019

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 […]

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

Published on 14 March 2019

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 to adequately qualify […]