External EFT Risk containment
Russell Knight
I have been giving thought to the Investec Programmable Banking Roadmap. I am not sure where to post this idea, so just placing it here before I forget it:
If I understand correctly - eventually the intention is to permit EFT to external accounts via the accounts API. Obviously, this comes with some risk - hence Transfer functionality was released beforehand, where there is containment of risk (funds do not leave the portfolio of the User). :bulb:Perhaps a way of mitigating the risk of external payments is at first to curtail the external EFT API to only be able to transfer to other Investec :zebra_face: bank accounts? This will allow for the community to experiment with funds between each other's accounts and if something should go wrong, there is a degree of community control and even control at the bank level, as the funds would not have left the Investec system? This could facilitate a smoother transition to the eventual objective and present an opportunity for robust testing in a controlled environment.
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Devin Pearson
could the risk not be mitigated by using biometric authentication. So when the payment is actioned a push notification is sent to the device. user authenticates themselves and the payment info is display with the option to approve or decline. I would like to see this functionality for all payments. particularly when starting out with new automated systems. It give me the user the ability to gate keep my founds while exploring the functionality.
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Hennie Spies
Hi Russell, I like the suggestion as it def mitigates the money leaving Investec to another financial institution. We will def take this into consideration during the beta phase
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Hennie Spies
You are spot-on in regards to the progression towards the ability to make payments to external beneficiaries. Your suggestion is deffinatly one that would mitigate the risk. Thanks for giving this a thought as this is exactly why the community is such a crucial element to us making programmable banking a real thing.