The Law of Electronic Funds Transfers

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Provides a clear understanding of the law governing electronic funds transfers, with emphasis on global and domestic wire transfers, ACH payments and consumer transactions. Concise analysis of U.C.C. Article 4A, EFTA, Regulation E and other pertinent law gives you the information you need to understand the complex legal ramifications of electronic funds transfers.

Details the law on such topics as:

·             Acceptance, rejection, and execution

·             Sender's payment obligation to accepting bank

·             Liability for unauthorized payment orders

·             Errors in payment orders and acceptance

·             Cancellations, amendment, and reversal

·             Damages for improper execution

·             Beneficiary's rights: notice, payment, and discharge

First published in 1992.

1 volume; looseleaf; updated annually.
CHAPTER 1 EFT in Context
CHAPTER 2 Funds Transfer: Uniform State Legislation - U.C.C. Article 4A
CHAPTER 3 Domestic Large Dollar Wire Transfer Systems - CHIPS® AND Fedwire® Funds Service
CHAPTER 4 International Funds Transfers
CHAPTER 5 ACH Transfers
CHAPTER 6 Consumer Protection in Electronic Fund Transfers
Appendices
Glossary of Terms
Conversion Table
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Index
Dr. Benjamin Geva is a Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, Canada. He specializes in commercial and banking law, particularly in credit and secured transactions, negotiable instruments and payment mechanisms. He is the author of Financing Consumer Sales and Product Defenses in Canada and the United States, a textbook on consumer bills and notes, and the co-author of Commercial and Consumer Transactions - Cases, Text and Materials. He has written numerous periodical articles in the United States, England, Canada, Australia, South Africa, France and Israel, primarily in the negotiable instruments and payments area. Professor Geva is also the editor-in-chief of theBanking and Finance Law Review and has consulted in the payment and funds transfer law area. He held visiting positions in the United States (at Universities of Chicago, Illinois, and Utah), Israel (at Tel Aviv University), Australia (at Monash, Deakin, and Melbourne Universities) and France (at the University of Aix-Marseille) and has been acting for the International Monetary Fund as a payment law expert in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. Professor Geva received his LL.B from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel in 1970 and obtained an LL.M in 1975 and his S.J.D. in 1980, both from Harvard University. He was admitted to the bars of Israel and Ontario, Canada.