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Allocation Of Sender Risks In Wire Transfers: The Common Law And Ucc Article 4a [Part 2], Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

Allocation Of Sender Risks In Wire Transfers: The Common Law And Ucc Article 4a [Part 2], Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

No abstract provided.


The Law Of Electronic Funds Transfers, Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

The Law Of Electronic Funds Transfers, Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

Provides a clear understanding of the law governing electronic funds transfers, with emphasis on global and domestic wire transfers, ACH payments and consumer transactions. Concise analysis of U.C.C. Article 4A, EFTA, Regulation E and other pertinent law gives you the information you need to understand the complex legal ramifications of electronic funds transfers.


Allocation Of Sender Risks In Wire Transfers: The Common Law And Ucc Article 4a [Part 1], Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

Allocation Of Sender Risks In Wire Transfers: The Common Law And Ucc Article 4a [Part 1], Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

No abstract provided.


Banking And Negotiable Instruments (Supplement), Winter 2013, Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

Banking And Negotiable Instruments (Supplement), Winter 2013, Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

Course Number 2420


The Beneficiary’S Bank And Beneficiary Described By Name And Number: Liability Chain And Liability Standard In Wire Transfers (Part 2), Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

The Beneficiary’S Bank And Beneficiary Described By Name And Number: Liability Chain And Liability Standard In Wire Transfers (Part 2), Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

This article deals with issues evolving around the identification of the beneficiary in the last payment order in the credit transfer received by the last bank in the transfer chain ("beneficiary's bank"), the duties of the beneficiary's bank in the case of an ambiguous description of the beneficiary in the payment order, and the liability of the beneficiary's bank in case it broke such duties.


Payment Transactions Under The Eu Payment Services Directive: A U.S. Comparative Perspective, Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

Payment Transactions Under The Eu Payment Services Directive: A U.S. Comparative Perspective, Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

This article endeavours to analyse the provisions of Title IV governing rights and obligations in relation to the provision and use of payment services. Analysis is particularly from a US comparative perspective. Attention will be given to Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC") Article 4A, which governs U.S. wire and other credit transfers as well as federal laws governing consumer retail payment systems. A broader but related objective of the article is the assessment of the contribution of Title IV to the harmonization of funds transfer and payment law, not only by comparison to the U.S., but also by reference to a …


Legislative Power In Relation To Transfers Of Securities: The Case For Provincial Jurisdiction In Canada, Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

Legislative Power In Relation To Transfers Of Securities: The Case For Provincial Jurisdiction In Canada, Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

No abstract provided.


The Payment Order Of Antiquity And The Middle Ages: A Legal History, Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

The Payment Order Of Antiquity And The Middle Ages: A Legal History, Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

Examining the legal history of the order to pay money initiating a funds transfer, the author tracks basic principles of modern law to those that governed the payment order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Exploring the legal nature of the payment order and its underpinning in light of contemporary institutions and payment mechanisms, the book traces the evolution of money, payment mechanisms and the law that governs them, from developments in Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, Rome, and Greco-Roman Egypt, through medieval Europe and post-medieval England. Doctrine is examined in Jewish, Islamic, Roman, common and civil laws. Investigating such diverse …


Irrevocability Of Bank Drafts, Certified Cheques And Money Orders, Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

Irrevocability Of Bank Drafts, Certified Cheques And Money Orders, Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

This article deals with three types of negotiable instruments payable on demand which are issued, stamped or signed by banks prior to their collection and payment, and used as mechanisms for the transmission of funds. These instruments are the bank draft, including the bank money order, the certified cheque, and the personal money order. The article is concerned with the binding effect, or the irrevocability, of the bank's obligation on these instruments under the law of bills and notes. It concludes that (1) the issuer of the bank draft is liable as a drawer, and under some circumstances, also as …


Insolvent Bank’S Irrevocable Credit As Priority Payment Instrument: Barclays Bank V. Price Waterhouse, Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

Insolvent Bank’S Irrevocable Credit As Priority Payment Instrument: Barclays Bank V. Price Waterhouse, Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

No abstract provided.


Settlement Finality And Associated Risks In Funds Transfers – When Does Interbank Payment Occur?, Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

Settlement Finality And Associated Risks In Funds Transfers – When Does Interbank Payment Occur?, Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

This paper addresses the first meaning of settlement finality, that is, the discharge of the interbank obligation. The discussion focuses on large-value transfer systems, namely, "systematically important" payment systems, and examines settlement finality therein under the provisions of Article 4A of the Uniform Commercial Code-Funds Transfers. Primary attention is given to the various implications of settlement finality under Article 4A, as well as to compliance with the statutory scheme with BIS Core Principles, in conjunction with system rules. Following the present discussion on the meaning of settlement finality, Part 2 of the paper sets out settlement mechanisms in large-value transfer …


The Beneficiary’S Bank And Beneficiary Described By Name And Number: Liability Chain And Liability Standard In Wire Transfers (Part 1), Benjamin Geva Oct 2015

The Beneficiary’S Bank And Beneficiary Described By Name And Number: Liability Chain And Liability Standard In Wire Transfers (Part 1), Benjamin Geva

Benjamin Geva

This article deals with issues evolving around the identification of the beneficiary in the last payment order in the credit transfer received by the last bank in the transfer chain ("beneficiary's bank"), the duties of the beneficiary's bank in the case of an ambiguous description of the beneficiary in the payment order, and the liability of the beneficiary's bank in case it broke such duties.