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Receiving banks owe no retrieval duty to third‑party APP fraud victims: implications of Santander v CCP for Quincecare, litigation strategies and the UK mandatory reimbursement regime

Published on: 15 May 2025

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The narrative in Santander UK Plc v CCP Graduate School Ltd [2025] EWHC 667 (KB) is a textbook example of APP fraud. CCP moved just under £416,000 from its NatWest Bank Plc account to an account at Santander. It asserted that it had fallen prey to an APP fraud, whereby payers are duped into approving transfers to an impostor’s account masquerading as a genuine beneficiary. During September and October 2016, CCP executed 15 transfers from its account to a Santander account in the name of PGW Consultants Ltd, believing PGW to be an authentic recipient. Each payment was sent in line with directions supplied to CCP by the fraudsters. After the monies landed in the Santander account, the fraudsters then swept the funds out. In its defence, Santander explained that, after PGW made a further transfer to an account at Lloyds Bank Plc, Lloyds grew suspicious of possible fraud when that sum was promptly dispersed from the Lloyds account. Lloyds raised its concerns with Santander, and Santander provided Lloyds with an indemnity, which enabled a modest recovery of part of the misappropriated amount. The provision of such an indemnity in these particular circumstances was subsequently central to the dispute...

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