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The Consumer Association and the banks are going to talk about the large number misbetalingen by faults with the IBAN. Each month, a total of some 18 million euros to the wrong account transferred by clerical errors in the song.
A spokeswoman for the Consumers’ Association confirmed to Following reports in The Telegraph on Saturday that the league is going to talk to the banks. According to the newspaper, the banks have promised to go to work on a solution.
Expendable to recover money
IBAN stands for International Bank Account Number. Since last August, people who want to pay a bill or want to make money using this number. Who make a mistake when filling out the long track, the risk that the money does not reach the right person or company. To get the amount back then was a huge hassle for the consumer and the bank.
,, It is a legally complex issue. We have some ideas about that, but we want to discuss with the banks, “said the Consumer Association.
18 million
In the period before the final implementation of the IBAN fit banks an automatic conversion (conversion tool) to the new long number. Typographical errors led back then to around 4,500 per month which misbetalingen monthly with EUR 18 million, turned out in April 2014 from a minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem response to questions.
In May, the banks announced re-enter the previously abolished conversion tool. They were stopped there in April dir years because of the high cost. There are many unofficial omrekentools on the Internet, but sometimes fraudulent sites that show their own bank account instead of the required IBAN
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