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Breaking Down The Faster Payments Construct

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In just a matter of days, the payments industry will see a significant — and ubiquitous — change in the way payments are sent and received. Same Day ACH will create a new option for faster payments for all the banks and credit unions across the U.S. What’s Under The Faster Payments Umbrella?

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Take two announcements from just last week, related to the evolution of faster payments in the U.S. 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. Then came PayPal’s debut of Instant Transfer to Bank.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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There’s a canary in the faster payments coalmine. That was the day that an advocacy group, Financial Innovation Now (FIN), submitted a public comment letter to the Fed in response to its proposal to create and operate a real-time payments system in the U.S. It may also change the conversation about faster payments in the U.S.

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The Roil Over B2B Payments Rails

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launched its Faster Payments scheme, after the regulator said the banks had to comply, but has amped up ever since, as regulators in a few other countries have followed in the U.K.’s ACH rails now settle same-day, three times a day. Limits have also been raised for those payments. It may have started in 2007 when the U.K.

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Why Certainty Rules Payments

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The notion of moving those funds faster between the bank accounts of those trading partners is driving a slew of innovation and investment across bank and non-bank network rails today. Certainty of good funds is what they need to plan their cash position, as is the certainty that the funds moving across the networks are secure.

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When Instant Payments Are Just Payments

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According to the most recent PYMNTS Disbursement Satisfaction Report , “Consumers’ instant payments adoption has increased nearly fourfold over the past three years, with 42 percent reporting they received at least one such payment this year compared to the 11 percent who said the same in 2017.”

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The Real-Time Payments Receivables Conundrum

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Many leverage existing rails, but use tech to solve for the underwriting or fraud issues that prevent good funds from moving faster between accounts. Many also leverage existing contractual relationships to create network effects across banks to accelerate the delivery of those good funds.