For example, right now, the wire transfer industry is dominated by monolithic firms like Western Union.
The problem is obviously that JPM never got the confirmation but took in the wire transfer any way.
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Later that day, Monk contacted the client and explained the delivery problem and the need for the wire transfer.
Another tier of complexity has to do with differences in the information required to send, say, a wire transfer to different countries.
Efforts by Arizona authorities to fight the violence include intercepting wire transfer payments to smugglers of drugs and of human beings, Goddard said.
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Others say that the money could be a bribe for ENARSA because if it had been clean, it would have been done by wire transfer.
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Although the client had verbally authorized the alternative delivery by wire transfer, the customer had not signed a new LOA authorizing the use wiring the funds.
The forged check, the bogus wire transfer, the suborned courier?
Each country has different rules for different forms of payment and the fees you have to pay for, say, a wire transfer, are likely to vary all over the map.
As an example of the disadvantages of incomplete information, I jut waited 10 days for a payment from a client that left out a crucial number on a wire transfer.
As a result, players can access our games from areas of poor financial infrastructure, or can play exciting high stakes games quickly without waiting for a bank wire transfer to be processed.
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People were duped into sending a partial or full payment to a third-party agent via a wire transfer payment service and to fax their payment receipt to the seller as proof of payment.
Posing as money launderers, DEA agents picked up bags of cash from the bad guys at hotels and parking lots and sent the funds into the U.S. financial system after getting wire transfer instructions from money brokers.
And this time (this all took place a few weeks ago, before the AIRBNB story broke) I have hesitated and felt nervous about sending a wire transfer for a vacation rental that is not listed anywhere on any website.
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The day's first witness will be an FBI agent who will summarize the FBI's investigation of Trie and is expected to lay-out a money trail of hundreds of thousands of dollars sent by wire transfer from Trie's partner, Ng Lap Seng, to Trie.
Taxpayers can no longer rely on the fact that their name is not known to the IRS. With relatively minimal information received from a thief or a shell-company wire transfer, the IRS can extract the intelligence it needs from the Swiss authorities and use it to prosecute the taxpayer.
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Even then it's possible for well-intentioned banks to miss a suspicious wire-transfer request or dirty money commingled with legitimate funds.
The company gets four fifths of its revenue from its wire-transfer business.
Many banks have also eyed the wire-transfer market with envy, but Western Union has fought back by opening a slew of new outlets in recent years.
People who remain outside the banking system often fall prey to predatory lenders and to the high charges levied by wire-transfer services, with little recourse when they are abused.
Similar tactics already have been used in the U.K., Scandinavia and South Africa, and are part of an upsurge in wire and electronic-funds transfer thefts at financial institutions that have drastically escalated in the past year, affecting mostly small businesses and nonprofit groups.
Cash could be put into the service using a credit card, bank wire, postal money order or other money transfer service.
Remove the pot from the heat and gently transfer the steamers to a large bowl with the wire-mesh skimmer.
But even banks that claim to comply with it now, such as Britain's NatWest and Germany's Deutsche Bank, say they cannot guarantee a transfer time of less than six days for most payments by wire.
Over the next two years, Terry Davis, 53 years old, says he plans to transfer to his two sons a portion of his stake in The Wire Shop Inc.
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