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How real-time payments erased borders for coronavirus-era commerce

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With consumers and merchants alike sharing the need to be paid faster, the case for adopting real-time payments globally has quickly advanced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mastercard: Collaboration Is Key To Scaling Real-Time Payments

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With speed being the most obvious value proposition of real-time payments capabilities, it’s not difficult to imagine that corporate payers would be eager to embrace faster payments functionality in their accounts payable (AP) departments. Tackling Barriers, Both Real and Perceived.

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The Clearing House On The Race for Real-Time Payments In The US

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These efforts include TCH’s efforts to connect financial institutions’ (FIs’) core banking systems to the company’s Real-Time Payments (RTP) network, along with what card networks and FinTechs are doing to enable real-time push payments to receiver bank accounts. What’s Next.

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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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Moving Beyond ACH . ACH might be among the most readily visible paper check killers — and as Nacha’s Larimer noted, “we need more than just ACH to make huge inroads [against checks]. Real time and the ACH network can actually work together to displace paper checks.”

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Real-Time Payments Steps Up To Fulfill Demand For Faster Funds

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“Financial institutions (FIs) and other financial services providers are looking to help meet the need for speed by leveraging various faster payment rails that support an array of payment methods,” according to PYMNTS’ latest Real-Time Payments Report done in collaboration with The Clearing House.

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TCH’s Waterhouse: Real-Time Payments’ 2021 Focus Is On Smarter, Safer

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According to Russ Waterhouse , executive vice president of Product Development and Strategy at The Clearing House (TCH), the surge in digitization brought on by the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the evolution of a range of RTP (Real-Time Payments) network advancements, including instant payroll, merchant settlements and tokenization.

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Hitting The Gas On Real-Time Payments Adoption

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The year 2020 has been an unexpected one, to say the least — not least of all for the payments ecosystem. This year was supposed to be a tipping point for real-time payments adoption in the U.S., real-time payments journey. The faster payments ecosystem in the U.S. The Tallest Hurdles.