The execution boundary.

Humsana sits at the point where a consequential action crosses from one authority context into another. It asks whether the authority still covers what is being executed, and refuses when it does not.

A refusal names the field, both values and the rule, and nothing executes.

Company A
  • Principal
  • Authority
  • Agent
Company B
  • Executor

The same problem, at three depths.

Inside one system, the caller and the executor share a boundary, so the check is a formality and the authority context never leaves the place that issued it. Across two systems inside one company, identity travels and answers who is calling, but the authority for this specific action stays behind in the system that granted it. Across two companies, the executor holds the request and almost nothing else, so it will not trust the request and the request cannot prove itself.

Six stages carry authority to execution.

Each stage can be held, checked or lost.

  1. 01

    Authority

    Who is acting, and on whose behalf.

  2. 02

    Delegation

    How that authority reached the actor.

  3. 03

    Action

    What the agent is trying to do.

  4. 04

    Binding

    What the authority covers.

  5. 05

    Execution

    What arrives at the executor.

  6. 06

    Evidence

    What can later be reconstructed.

The failure is on the record.

Authorized push payment fraud is the class where a payment the account holder approved is redirected to an account they never named.

£257.5m
Authorized push payment fraud losses reported by UK Finance members in the first half of 2025.110,747 cases in six months. The payment was authorized by the person who held the account.UK Finance, Half Year Fraud Report 2025 Source
£1.28bn
Payment fraud losses reported by UK Finance members in 2025.Up four percent on 2024, and reported for a full year rather than a half.UK Finance, Annual Fraud Report 2026 Source

The check that answers them.

Where the check has to sit.

The integrating party places the check on the path that acts, on its own side of the irreversible call.