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Can a bank transfer funds from one account to another without your permission?

11 November 2019

I have two accounts with the same bank. I am in arrears on my home loan payments but will be... receiving money into my savings account. It’s not my money, but money from my sister that I must use to help arrange for her wedding and expenses. I’m just worried that the bank will see the money and then take it to settle my arrears on my home loan. Can they do this?

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Skipped a credit instalment or two? Maybe you should check your post…

24 August 2014

Are you a party to a loan agreement or a credit account thinking that the contact details you insert are... a mere formality? You skip a payment or two every so often and circumvent the letters of demand or legal notices by ignoring the registered post sent to you? If so you may wish to reconsider your approach. With debt, ignorance is never bliss and the recent case of Kubyana v Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd (CC) bears witness thereto.

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