PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

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. And finally, that the banks and the card networks are the big losers. Then came PayPal’s debut of Instant Transfer to Bank. A Couple of Important Dots.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

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 flew in on Dec. 14, the Friday before the week before Christmas, so you might not have noticed. Here’s where the canary flew in.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Desiring to access faster rails and the electricity around P2P transfers, consumers and businesses are driving the market’s obsession with speedier money during recovery. To paraphrase the movie “Top Gun” … “We feel the need … the need for speed.” Clearly, paper checks aren’t cutting it anymore. We’ve evolved.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Consumers are also working to handle new budget strains and seeking swifter access to their earnings so they can better make ends meet. They face an array of options to help them with their acceleration efforts, with some choosing to start delivering payroll via push-to-card offerings or directly into workers’ digital wallets, for example.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Consumers live in a real-time world. That expectation increasingly extends to how consumers want to access their money. But delivering on that concept — and providing instant push payments on demand — is far from simple. Instant payments are a terrific customer experience, but delivering that choice is far from easy.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

B2B payments in the insurance industry suffer from many of the same challenges that other markets do: namely, check-based payments. However, to push insurance providers in the direction of ePayments, service providers have to acknowledge the nuances of the insurance payments machine. “We see really high adoption of virtual cards.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

It also pushed our industry to think about ways to provide faster availability of funds to people and businesses in need.”. A lot of what the pandemic did was force our industry to truly be digital, to facilitate frictionless transactions,” TCH Senior Vice President Elena Whisler said in a recent conversation with PYMNTS. “A

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Same Day ACH is now a reality and, with much fanfare, represents the first ubiquitous faster payments initiative in the United States without an attendant regulatory mandate. Saks likened the “early days” of faster payments as one analogous to the advent of credit cards, which eventually shaped the way eCommerce is conducted.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

When it comes to accessing their money, today’s consumer wants it now, with the push of a button. As they grow bolder with this demand, consumer requirements for speed, simplicity and choice in how they get paid could soon make push payments technology a corporate standard. New Tools on the Block .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

To get a sense of where faster payments are headed, look to the consumer. If you look across the technology industry and the payments industry, the pace and movement of change is accelerating,” Mike Kresse, division executive for card and money movement at FIS , recently told PYMNTS in an interview. Particularly in the U.S,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Checks, despite their near extinction in consumer payments, remain alive and well when it comes to businesses paying each other. We have seen all kinds of products rolled out to kill the check in corporate payments – prepaid cards, virtual cards – but stacked against them are those three components,” Bloh said. “A

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

” With the creation of AeroPay Express , the company is marketing its solution as a virtual credit card – but in reality, the solution uses ACH payment rails. Troy noted that the company approaches corporate buyers with a virtual credit card model because it’s easier to understand. “There are too many pitfalls.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

This is the last mile of payments, where a push can get funds where they need to go — literally. This is without friction, and where consumers, borrowers and businesses receive funding 24/7, in the ways they want and on demand. The pair collaborated on the first push payment seen in the United States five years ago.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Our investments in technologies like biometrics, tokens, encryption and artificial intelligence are redefining the way both consumers and transactions are protected.” billion at the same time last year. billion Mastercard and Maestro-branded cards worldwide. Consumer sentiment is favorable.”. ” By The Numbers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Our investments in technologies like biometrics, tokens, encryption and artificial intelligence are redefining the way both consumers and transactions are protected.” billion at the same time last year. billion Mastercard and Maestro-branded cards worldwide. Consumer sentiment is favorable.”. ” By The Numbers.

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FICO

JUNE 15, 2023

Gone are the days of reaching into my pocket for a wallet , counting out bills or wiggling a credit card free or (if you can even remember these days) finding a checkbook and filling out a paper check. Consumer spending also increased 1.8% in January while prices keep increasing for most day-to-day purchases.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Push payments. In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Drew Edwards, Ingo Money CEO , helped clarify the nomenclature and delved into push payments, a form of instant payments. But payments have lagged behind those other areas, creating headaches and costs for consumers and companies alike. Instant payments.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2017

“I remember having this conversation a decade ago” said Gurz, with banks and other firms about modernizing the payments infrastructure, and now consumers are demanding faster payments on the retail side. One issue is that the payment rails currently in use were not designed to support a real-time environment.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Like many small businesses (SMBs), he doesn’t accept cards. I had a sense there might be a problem when I was notified via text a day later that he had not picked up the money. I needed a few outdoor cushions earlier this season and hired a local upholstery shop to make them. The invoice amount was less than $500.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The goal, according to Edwards, should be to make it as easy and efficient as possible for consumers and small businesses to get their funds. The company announced that going forward, borrowers using OnDeck’s SMB lending marketplace will be able to collect their funds via their debit cards in real time. The Power Of Instant.

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Payment Savvy

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Automated Clearing House ( ACH) transfers have revolutionized the way we handle our finances, offering a convenient and secure method to send and receive money electronically. Whether it’s receiving your paycheck through direct deposit or paying your bills online, ACH payment solutions have become an integral part of our daily lives.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It was a lively discussion, and it, like the conversations over the course of that day, was held under Chatham House Rules. Rails and railroads, Buffet wrote in Berkshire’s 2016 Annual Letter, are four times as fuel efficient as trucks , requiring only a single gallon of diesel fuel to move a ton of freight 500 miles. s footsteps.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

As a company that works primarily with other financial institutions to offer solutions for their own customers, both consumer and corporate, Fiserv has a wide reach in the FinServ space. ” Fiserv is yet again nominated for a PYMNTS Innovation Project Award , this time for the NACHA Best Innovation in ACH Award.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

live paycheck-to-paycheck – and many struggle to make necessary purchases or payments in the days leading up to payday. Barha said the average value that employees access is about $27, choosing to retrieve a portion of their day’s wages about three times per pay cycle. storefronts today than McDonald’s, according to data from Pew.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

Innovative ideas are inspired by smart people who see problems and have the conviction, capital and courage to come up with new ways to solve for them. Take faster payments. One such innovator recognized the vast commerce potential that could be unlocked if new technologies were used to move money and messaging between people in near real-time.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

Instead, we could do something right away — or almost right away — that would make payments between consumers and businesses faster. Instead, we could do something right away — or almost right away — that would make payments between consumers and businesses faster. The path to faster payments in the U.S. Cash doesn’t impose frictions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

But for the Fed and its rails, they say, employees will be resigned to the bad old days of antiquated payroll systems that force them to live paycheck to paycheck, and at great financial risk. Ever notice your paycheck takes days to clear ?” Ironically, perhaps, the ACH network’s first direct deposit use case was the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

may be perceived as being a bit behind the demand of consumers. may be perceived as being a bit behind the demand of consumers. NACHA and Same Day ACH debuted EXACT DATE to enable same-day settlements through three settlement windows, and are currently exploring options to extend that availability on weekends and holidays.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

But that, coupled with the value of interacting with real human beings who can help “close the sale” and treat loyal customers like VIPs, is among the reasons that physical retailers want nothing more than to have consumers step foot in their stores. That is unless you live in Melbourne, Australia, where things seem pretty chill.

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