- “Regulatory burden has been a real impost and barrier to innovation, and so if we can get some relief from some of those regulatory requirements, then it will allow banks to become able to spend more time and more resources on innovation.”
- “But the most important thing you can do is to have a degree of caution and care about anything you do when paying money in an online environment,” Beaumont adds.
- Banks launched a joint effort to identify mule accounts in December and had found almost 1000 by February, New Zealand Banking Association chief executive Roger Beaumont said.
- “We submit that the FMA could make it clearer that the outcomes won’t be used as a tool to penalise financial institutions for outcomes that may seem unfair with the benefit of hindsight,” the NZBA submission says.
- Having previously opposed the Reserve Bank introducing debt-to-income restrictions on banks’ home loan borrowers, now they’re going ahead, the New Zealand Banking Association wants them loosened.
- “Banks were already sharing some information on money mules, but the new phase of work will increase the speed and amount of information being shared,” said NZBA chief executive Roger Beaumont.
- “Banks will investigate a voluntary reimbursement scheme for customers who lose money in an authorised payment scam. That may help inform any changes to the Code of Banking Practice which sets out current customer expectations for fraud reimbursement.”
- “Scammers often use weblinks or hyperlinks in text messages to gain access to people’s bank accounts. To help reduce this kind of scam risk, banks have committed to removing links from texts to customers,” NZBA chief executive Roger Beaumont said.
- “When you think about how a scam plays out, the money leaving your bank account is the very last step in that process,” says Beaumont. “It might be a fake ad in social media that makes you click on a link that’s promoting something dubious. It might be a phone call from a scammer that... Read more »
- One type of banking fraud the New Zealand Banking Association sees are money “mules” who, for a payment, let criminals transfer money overseas via their accounts, says chief executive Roger Beaumont. Some don’t understand it’s a crime.
