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Chime’s Expanding Banking Services Menu

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It’s not really a risk to them, of course, since there is certainty of good funds from the employer – Chime is just making access to funds available to consumers 24 hours before they are cleared and settled. At the start of 2019, Chime reports roughly two million active bank accounts on its platform.

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Visa, Wave Team To Bring Instant Payouts To Micropreneurs

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Though the program is starting in limited rollout today, Whiting noted, the goal is to make it an option for every merchant on the Wave platform by the end of 2019. Wave already vets its merchants to make sure they are legitimate users, and that the funds moving to them are good funds.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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It’s been reported that TCH had 36 banks on board RTP at the end of 2018, and expects that number to reach 1,000 by the end of Q1 2019 – about two weeks from today. as of January 2019. months into 2019. TCH is the association of the 25 largest banks in the U.S., and one of two operators of the ACH network in the U.S.,

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When Instant Payments Are Just Payments

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That number is even higher (nearly 62 percent) when counting people who received an instant disbursement, like ACH , from government or other sources in 2019. As Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards told PYMNTS , “There are enough rails in place today to provide ubiquity, choice and instant access to good funds for consumers.

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Data Dive: Omens Edition, Good, Bad and Uncertain

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It was a good funding round for Stripe – which snapped up $245 million in a new round of venture funding. The latest infusion of funds valued Stripe at $20 billion. Looking ahead to 2019, we will expand our new experience to more buyers and sellers in the U.S.

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