UCC Article 4A and the AI Wire-Verification Architecture: Commercially Reasonable Security Procedures When the Caller Is Verified But the Instruction Is Not
Wire fraud losses are running at multi-billion-dollar annual totals and the legal allocation of those losses runs through UCC Article 4A's commercially-reasonable-security-procedure standard. AI voice authentication of the caller does not, by itself, satisfy the security procedure for a payment instruction. The architecture we run so the bank's Article 4A position holds in court when the instruction was the fraud.