By Sinead Cruise
Britain is giving banks enhanced new powers to delay and investigate suspicious payments in a bid to slash the estimated 460 million pounds ($610 million) lost to fraud in the last year.
New laws proposed by the UK finance ministry today will enable banks to pause transactions for up to 72 hours where there are reasonable grounds to suspect a payment is fraudulent.
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