The Treasury has announced its intention to amend the Payment Services Regulations 2017 (PSR). As a means of combatting authorised push payment (APP) fraud, banks will be given the power to delay the transferring of funds where they have established that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the payment order has been placed subsequent to fraud or dishonesty. When utilising this discretion, they must inform their customer, who can then decide whether to rescind their instruction. Although the new power may prevent many instances of fraud, it is not without its problems, and this article discusses six sets of issues.
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