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In the past year, three major economies — the Eurozone, the USA and Australia — have gone live with real-time payments schemes, Canada will follow in 2019 and many other countries are on the road to implementing real-time schemes. When this kind of fraud takes advantage of an instant and irrevocable payment mechanism, losses will sky rocket.
As of late 2019, there are few people left who need to be talked into the “why” of instant payments — that case has already been well made. There’s financial risk, and making sure the payee who ends up in possession of the funds is the intended recipient. The payment is irrevocable, and can’t be clawed back.
Banks have given customers the ability to make real-time, irrevocable payments but have not given them protection if something goes wrong. Currently there is a standoff — it even looks likely that there will be no funding for it from the end of 2019. So why can’t banks agree on how to fund this initiative?
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. These include advanced data security and new state and federal regulations governing payout mechanisms – to say nothing of the irrevocable nature of instant payments.
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