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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. Achieving ubiquity across the 12,000 or so FIs in the U.S.

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Deep Dive: How Real-Time Payments Can Help Meet B2B, P2P Expectations

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Consumers and businesses alike have long been familiar with digital payments, but both now expect smoother payment experiences as the COVID-19 pandemic’s financial impacts continue. Friction points that once proved to be minor nuisances have become legitimate financial challenges, especially for consumers and smaller businesses.

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Connected Devices, Instant Payments, Digital Shift Top This Week’s News

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It was a busy week for commerce and payments, as consumers are harnessing connected devices for digital-first shopping and firms are looking to harness tools to speed up business-to-business (B2B) disbursements and payments. Consumers’ digital shift means that customer expectations for their card issuers are higher than in the past.

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Report: Paychex Gives Traditional Payroll Cycle A Real-Time Makeover

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Slow payments have long frustrated businesses and consumers, forcing the former to readjust their timelines as they await funds and prompting the latter to put off purchases as they watch for transactions to finalize. PYMNTS’ data revealed that many consumers are now seeking real-time access to their funds, with 35.2

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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Such as how the Fed plans get a critical mass of participants on board, which The Clearing House (TCH) is struggling to do now. FedNow is positioned as a competitor to the private systems, with TCH as its only real-time domestic account-to-account competitor, but it also competes with cards and ACH. Slowing Innovation.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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This new feature, available to PayPal customers in good standing, leverages the company’s partnership with Chase, and Chase’s connection to The Clearing House’s RTP network, to move money instantly into the bank accounts of consumers and SMBs. TCH is the association of the 25 largest banks in the U.S., the other being the Fed.

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P2P Payments Set The Stage For B2B RTP

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The rise of Zelle , and any number of peer-to-peer (P2P) payment options, has increasingly brought consumers on board with the need for speed in payments — where settlement is marked by seconds and minutes, not hours or days. The Clearing House [TCH] launched its own RTP network at the end of 2017.).

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