
APP Fraud Reimbursement: Name-Checking as Fraud-Cost Control
£354 million refunded to scam victims last year – name-checking is now the cheapest insurance a bank can buy In 2025, UK banks reimbursed £354.3 million to victims of authorised
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£354 million refunded to scam victims last year – name-checking is now the cheapest insurance a bank can buy In 2025, UK banks reimbursed £354.3 million to victims of authorised

The UK just launched its first new major payment scheme since 2008 — and most businesses have no idea On 2 June 2026, the UK switched on its first new

Two years ago, obconnect was lucky enough to begin working with Zopa Bank. They’d come to obconnect to migrate away from their existing Confirmation of Payee provider. The reasons were

Some partnerships are engineered. The best ones tend to grow. A few years ago now, we started working with the team at Raidiam. This was well before our New Zealand

Payment failures are often viewed as a technical issue. A temporary glitch. A connectivity problem. Something for the engineering team to resolve behind the scenes. But for businesses – particularly

For years, account-to-account (A2A) payments have been discussed as the next evolution in how money moves. Efficient. Direct. Cost-effective. Yet for a long time, they remained just outside the mainstream