Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)8 Jan

The magic spell that makes banks give you your money back

Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) reads his latest Bits about Money essay explaining why he “loves Regulation E more than any rational person does.” He explains how Reg E created a privately-administered legal system processing over 100 million complaints annually—dwarfing the formal U.S. court system—and why banks are now trying to avoid these obligations for Zelle's nine figure fraud problem.
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Full transcript available here: www.complexsystemspodcast.com/the-magic-spell-reg-e/

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Links:

Bits about Money, One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimes
Full version of "Doesn't Matter, That's Reg E": https://suno.com/song/173bbd67-92f7-4868-930f-efeca4b373c0

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction
(02:46) These newfangled computers might steal our money
(12:45) The contractual liability waterfall in card payments
(20:35) Sponsors: MongoDB and Framer
(22:23) The contractual liability waterfall in card payments (continued)
(23:47) Enter Zelle
(25:46) Zelle is an enormous fraud target
(32:23) Banks may attempt to extend the Zelle precedent
(35:02) Reg E encompasses almost every technology which exists and many which don't yet

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