• calender-icon Event
  • Financial Crime
  • Posted: 20 Aug 2024

APP Fraud Reimbursement: State of Readiness Workshop

28
Aug
2024

  • Calender-Icon Time: 14:00 - 15:30
  • Location-Icon Location: Online
  • Admin-Icon Organised By: BSA Events
  • Currency-Icon Free to attend

The BSA will be hosting an online workshop for its members, in readiness for October’s new regime.


We will cover a wide range of topics which include; operational readiness (including the practicalities around customer communications, investigations, and reimbursement), key risks, external engagement and future activity.

Please come prepared to share your own experience and discuss these important areas.

Due to anticipated high numbers attending we'd like to ensure we cover as much as possible during this session.
If you have any questions you'd like to submit in advance please email them to
events@bsa.org.uk


                                                                                         AGENDA

1.  Welcome and Introductions (BSA)
     Background and Introduction.

2.  Operational Readiness (Member Discussion)
     2.1 Customer Communications/Awareness
     -  Raising awareness
     -  Terms & Conditions
     -  Telephony
     -  Branches
     -  National Campaign?

     2.2 Systems, Payment Journey and other Communications changes
     -  Warnings
     -  Friction – time lag for payments out? No payments out for period post-opening?
     -  Reporting
     -  Transaction monitoring
     -  Nominated Account Withdrawals – potential whitelisting?

     2.3 Receiving/Sending Claims
     -  Practicalities
     -  Communicating with other firms

     2.4 Investigations
     -  Checklists
     -  Evidence
     -  Outcomes
     -  “Stop the Clock”

     2.5 Reimbursement
     -  Accounting treatment
     -  Operational readiness to refund within  days
     -  MI & Reporting (internal & external)

3.  Key Risk Areas (Member Discussion)
     3.1 Operational
     -  Potential initial lack of knowledge/expertise on claims investigation
     -  Resource constraints 
     -  Adequacy of transaction monitoring capability
     -  Short timeframe to “go live”
     -  Cost to firms of reimbursement requirement

     3.2 Exposure
     -  Sector identified as target by fraudsters
     -  Mule Accounts
     -  Account set-up: open payment vs nominated account vs closed loop

4.  External Engagement (BSA & Members)
     4.1  Pay.UK
     4.2  PSR
     4.3  FCA
     4.4  HMT

5.  Next Steps & BSA Support/Engagement

6.  Any Other Business

Competition Law
It is very important not to engage in formal, or informal, discussions that could contravene competition law.
A BSA note on the subject can be found here.

agenda-(1).png  Date:
  Wednesday, 28 August 2024

sessions.png  Timings:
  14:00 - 15:30

Currency-image.png  Cost:
  Free to attend - BSA Members only

register.png  Register:
  Complete the online form to secure your place.
         (Registration closes at 13:45 on Wednesday 28 August)

contact.png  Contact:
  Please direct any enquiries to: events@bsa.org.uk

Event Summary

  • Wednesday, 28 August 2024
  • 14:00 - 15:30
  • Free to attend

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