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Today In Data: Opioid Addiction, Same Day ACH And Women Shoppers

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2 million | Number of Same Day ACH transactions made in the first 11 days of Same Day ACH’s availability, according to NACHA’s statistics. Those statistics also stated more than 178,000 Same Day ACH transactions were made per day, accounting for a total of approximately $1.5

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B2B Payments Remains Without A Clear Picture Of Faster Payments’ Impact

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Federal Reserve made its own progress in exploring how the nation’s regulatory environment can support faster payments progress while maintaining security, while NACHA offered up some new data on same-day ACH volume growth in the country. billion in funds transferred using Same Day ACH, an average of $650 per transaction.

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TRENDING: Inside Hong Kong’s New Faster Payment System

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Recently, NACHA — The Electronic Payments Association approved three new rules to update Same Day ACH services. Such was the case in Hong Kong, where the existing RTGS system was only serving high-value interbank transactions, leaving peer-to-peer (P2P) and consumer-to-business (C2B) payments to languish.

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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. Same Day ACH and the card rails – both of which allow for money to move fast into consumer and business bank accounts for every consumer with a debit product.

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Does Everyone Win With Faster Payments?

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Same-day and faster payments will give us a lot of the same benefits that we get by handling card transactions, without using the card rails. That’s revolutionary,” he said. When it comes to P2P payments, Proto pointed to a shifting consumer mindset and, in turn, adoption.

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Meeting Consumer Demand With Speed-Of-Life Payments

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Direct deposits, push payments, eWallets, same-day ACH transfers, PayPal, Zelle and myriad other platforms and tools are now second nature. B2C, C2B, B2B and P2P: There are many ways that individuals and companies need to move money, and some have advanced more than others as agile new players enter the race.

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Payments’ Role In The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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As a result, he predicted that the entrenchment of faster payments will be a linear progression that moves from consumer-to-consumer (C2C) to consumer-to-business (C2B), then to business-to-consumer (B2C) to business-to-business (B2B). Yet, Kresse pointed out that, ultimately, individual consumer behavior drives changes in business behavior.

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