PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

The path to faster payments in the U.S. doesn’t have to be paved with a 500+ person task force analyzing what the world would look like if we were starting from a clean sheet of paper, competing propositions for who’s going to build and operate a new set of rails, or even what sort of spiffy software can make existing rails faster.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The Federal Reserve’s planned faster payments service, the FedNow Service, is slated to have an impact on the speed with which paper checks are processed, adding a new twist to the U.S.’s s path toward faster, digital payments. Keeping Checks In B2B Payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

Take faster payments. The company that commercialized the idea and consolidated the market to establish the first global faster payments network was Western Union in 1851. Western Union launched its national money transfer, which provided fast payments between people and businesses, in 1871.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

it confirmed that small businesses are fed up with their banks when it comes to how long it takes for payments and transactions to actually complete. With SMEs frustrated with sloth-like banks, the research seems to confirm that financial institutions need to do more to meet the faster payments needs of their SME clients.

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