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SWIFT Signals Further Openness To Blockchain?

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Elsewhere, Forbes said, per an interview with Craig Ramsey, head of real-time payments (RTP) at ACI Worldwide, that 2019 will see “significant” strides in real-time payments. The year] 2019 is about Request For Payment (RFP). That is going to be a big driver [in new] services,” he said.

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FTC Announces New Medicare Cards And Scam Prevention Tips

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The cards will be mailed in waves to various parts of the country from April 2018 until April 2019. The FTC is requesting that once the new cards are received, the old ones should be shredded immediately. A request for payment to get a new card is a sign of a possible scam.

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New Corporate Payment Tricks For Old Rails

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RBC Bank recently announced that it has become the first bank in Canada to offer Interac’s e-Transfer: Bulk Request Money service for corporates. SWIFT gpi Touts 2019 Numbers. SWIFT ‘s gpi released new data to showcase the growing adoption of the cross-border payments network.

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Citizens Bank’s Corporate Real-Time Payments Play

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Citizens plans to provide greater payments speed to its clients this year by using the RTP rail developed by The Clearing House (TCH). The FI, one of TCH’s owner banks, aims to offer its customers real-time payments during the first half of 2019, and give them the ability in later months to send them. .

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U.S. Faster Payments Council Releases Consumer Bill Pay Research White Paper

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The inaugural "Faster Payments Barometer," an online survey of industry professionals, published in Fall 2019, offered insights across businesses, financial institutions (FIs), and payment providers.

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When Email Becomes SMBs’ Biggest Security Threat

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For instance, fraudsters can infiltrate the email systems of a firm’s legitimate suppliers to send emails from those vendor domains with a request for payment. According to the FBI, more than $26 billion in losses linked to BEC were reported between July 2016 and September 2019. The BEC scam can manifest in many forms.

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Mastercard: Moving Beyond The Cards With Payment On Delivery, Online Bill Pay

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And to get there, the company is leveraging the functionalities gained from its 2017 acquisition of Vocalink and its 2019 buy of Transfast to shift payments beyond traditional card rails. “What you see through these two actions,” he told Webster, is to expand Mastercard’s role in commerce beyond cards.” Pay On Delivery.

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