What does a bank’s ‘kill switch’ kill? It became a point of contention after a victim lost money


Banks are divided into two camps over what services their kill switches affect, particularly when it involves Giro. - ST

SINGAPORE: In October, a customer called a bank to freeze all his cards and savings, only to discover later that not all fund transfers were disabled.

It could well be that the customer expected the bank’s “kill switch” to be a master switch in turning off the funding tap for everything linked to it further downstream – and reasonably so.

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