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When is a bank put on notice of an agent’s fraud?

18 March 2024 / Author(s): Jonathan Davies-Jones KC , Alexia Knight
Issue: November 2023 / Categories: Feature

By reference to previous authorities, this article discusses circumstances in which a bank might be held to be on inquiry or “put on notice” that an agent’s payment instruction to the bank is an attempt to defraud the bank’s customer.

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