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The Fed Should Develop Its Own Real-Time Payments, Say Three Former Fed Payment Experts

Tom Groenfeldt

Fed payment experts think the central bank should build and operate a real-time payments network to provide competition to the TCH network operated by the largest banks.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Connecting these two dots suggests a few important things that, for banks and card networks, might be the 2020 hindsight that could have come in handy had they stopped to look backwards a few years ago: That the Fed has much more than a passing interest in how faster payments are run in the U.S. This delay was initiated by the Fed.

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FedNow’s Montgomery: Gearing Up For 2023-24 — And Instant Payments Competition

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In an interview with Karen Webster, Boston Federal Reserve Chief Operating Officer and FedNow Program Executive Ken Montgomery said the central bank’s ambitious payments initiative remains on track — and will inject competition into the instant payments market. Having an efficient onboarding process will be key to ubiquity, he said.

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SWIFT Gears Up For Trade Via Blockchain

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.” In other related news, the Saudi British Bank (SABB), the third-largest bank in Saudi Arabia, said its cross-border payment pilot — with Ripple as an underpinning — has gone live. Federal Reserve said that Fed should develop its own real-time payments network.

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Who Will Lead The US To Real-Time Ubiquity By 2020?

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Since The Clearing House (TCH) launched Real-Time Payments (RTP) in 2017, the system has yet to reach ubiquity in the U.S. Meanwhile, the European Central Bank (ECB) launched its much-awaited TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) system. is hoping to attain real-time payments ubiquity by that point. About The Tracker.

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Fed Seeks Comment On New Operating Hours For Fedwire Funds

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” In addition, these changes would lead to adjustments in the central bank’s services so that The Clearing House (TCH) would be able to settle same-day transactions later in the day, via the NSS. The changes would include “extending the closing of NSS by one hour to 6:30 p.m.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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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. And maybe move the Fed in their preferred direction. That suggests that putting the Fed front-and-center in the U.S.