30 Jun 2017
When about thirty of the great and the good from the banking sector in Dublin and Belfast come together to talk cheques, cheque clearing and how to stay one step ahead of the fraudsters, there must be something afoot. There is… Payment specialists from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland recently attended a dedicated seminar at the...
13 Nov 2015
The Future Cheque Clearing Model – a fraud management opportunity As the cheque industry gets down to work in building the Future Clearing Model (FCM) in time for the 2017 implementation, some continuing debate circulates the players as to where, and how, the liability for fraud sits in the ‘new world’. Does the liability remain where it has tr...
14 Aug 2014
As most people in the UK payments space are either on the beach, or wish they were, just who is going to grab the image clearing initiative when the holidays are over? Following HM Treasury's summary confirmation of the responses to the consultation process - an exercise in telling everyone what you have told them, telling them again, and then tell...
23 Sep 2013
At the latest Cheque User Forum, hosted in London by the Cheque & Credit Clearing Company, a vision of the future of cheque clearing was laid out for an animated group of about 150 cheque professionals. The potential for image based clearing, now an established feature of the landscape in the US, Brasil, India, etc, might just be gathering mo...