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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="4A-104" title_number="4A" title_name="Funds Transfers" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Subject Matter and Definitions">
  <text>In this title:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>“Funds transfer” means the series of transactions, beginning with the originator’s payment order, made for the purpose of making payment to the beneficiary of the order. The term includes any payment order issued by the originator’s bank or by an intermediary bank intended to carry out the originator’s payment order. A funds transfer is completed by acceptance by the beneficiary’s bank of a payment order for the benefit of the beneficiary of the originator’s payment order.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>“Intermediary bank” means a receiving bank other than:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>The originator’s bank; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>The beneficiary’s bank.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>“Originator” means the sender of the first payment order in a funds transfer.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>“Originator’s bank” means:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>The receiving bank to which the payment order of the originator is issued if the originator is not a bank; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>The originator if the originator is a bank.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
