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Fed Seeks Comment On New Operating Hours For Fedwire Funds

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13, 2018, NACHA , the rules and standards body for the ACH network, announced that its voting members had approved amendments to the NACHA Operating Rules & Guidelines to establish a third Same Day ACH processing and settlement window,” the Federal Reserve wrote in the announcement. “On Sept.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day. And finally, that the banks and the card networks are the big losers. TCH is the association of the 25 largest banks in the U.S.,

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Collaborations Bringing Faster Payments Up To Speed

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Challenges and solutions continue to emerge surrounding NACHA’s recent move toward establishing Same Day ACH payments, which are due to arrive as soon as September 2016. Companies said they were also interested in how ACH might impact expedited bill pay, person-to person functionality, and payment options.

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Clearing Up The Case For ISO 20022

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Another big confusion point for ISO 20022 is its application to ACH – and now Same Day ACH. Estep makes it clear that the concept of Same Day ACH needs to be separated from ISO. and globally, understand the current capabilities of the ACH network in the U.S.

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Coming Together To Bring Faster Payments To Life

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When The Clearing House (TCH), the payments firm owned by commercial banks, along with global software and services provider FIS, recently submitted their proposal to the Fed’s Faster Payments Task Force in order to evaluate their real-time payments system proposal, it signified a milestone along the path toward real-time payments.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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Senator Elizabeth Warren asks in a campaign ad, ignoring the fact that 93 percent of working Americans have their checks directly deposited into their bank accounts – ready for use on payday – using the ACH network. Direct deposit over the ACH network eliminated that friction and got them earlier access to those funds.