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Consumer Banking and Payments Law

2005 Third Edition and
2007 Supplement with CD-Rom

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Credit, Debit, ATM and Stored Value Cards; Checks; Money Orders; E-Sign and UETA; Electronic Banking and Benefit Payments

Revolutionary Changes in Electronic Banking and Debit Card Use

  • Consumer liability for unauthorized use
  • Error resolution, and right to stop payment or to raise defenses
  • Required notices
  • Allowable charges
  • Consumer protections hidden in NACHA rules
  • Bank’s liability for thefts near ATM machines
  • Federal E-Sign Law, UETA, and electronic disclosures
  • Electronic check conversions.

How Bank Accounts Work in the 21st Century

  • Bank fees, bounced checks, and wrongful dishonor
  • Check 21 and the demise of returned paper checks
  • Banks can now cash post-dated checks before the due date
  • New rules on accord and satisfaction
  • Pre-authorized drafts: where merchant writes itself a check drawn on the consumer’s account
  • Liability for forged signatures and endorsements, check alterations
  • Limits on bank’s right to set off and third party garnishment.

The Latest on Money Orders, International Wires, Stored Value Cards

  • Consumer rights where instrument is lost or stolen
  • Right to stop payment
  • Who loses when the issuer becomes insolvent.

Dramatic Changes in How Government Payments Are Made

  • Federal law requiring direct deposit of all federal benefits
  • What you need to know about Electronic Transfer Accounts (ETAs)
  • Stored value card use for Food Stamps and other state benefits.
  • Rights of the disabled to access ATM machines

CD-RomAll the Primary Sources You Need on CD-Rom

  • UCC Provisions and Official Comments on checks and bank accounts, with amendments.
  • Federal statutes, regulations, and commentary on Electronic Fund Transfers, Check 21, E-Sign, Funds Availability, Truth in Lending, Truth in Savings, Pre-Authorized Drafts
  • Federal guides on Electronic Benefit Transfers (EBT), EFT 99, and ETA
  • Model Stored Value Card Statute.

 

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