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New Year’s Resolution: The Clearing House Urges Banks To Become 24/7 Operations

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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. “It To facilitate this transition in handling 24/7 cash flow, Whisler said TCH offers services such as intraday reconciliation.

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Mastercard and The Clearing House deepen their partnership to zero in on new instant payments applications 

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Mastercard recently expanded collaboration with The Clearing House (TCH), with the shared goal of propelling the adoption of instant payments. Mastercard’s collaboration with TCH dates back to 2017 when TCH introduced the RTP network, with Mastercard as the exclusive software provider for the network.

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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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There has to also be this continuity of transaction flow from a blockchain environment to a traditional payment environment,” added Scola. As a rule of thumb, he said, on-ramps and off-ramps need to be monitored and controlled to make sure networks are safe. Interoperability In Focus .

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TCH Releases Business Principles, Adds Seats To RTP Committee

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The Clearing House (TCH), which operates the RTP Business Committee, has added four seats to the committee to incorporate community bank and credit union representation, and also released a set of business principles to outline the RTP’s work. The RTP network was built for financial institutions of all sizes throughout the U.S.

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The Clearing House On The Race for Real-Time Payments In The US

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Waterhouse said that in terms of TCH’s own initiatives in getting banks on board the ongoing effort to make RTP ubiquitous across the entirety of the U.S. is actually a two-step process: connecting the core banking systems of these FIs to the TCH network, and then getting the banks to make it a part of their service offering.

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Real-Time Payments Move Past Early Adopters

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And beyond TCH and RTP, the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments solution looms. But that fragmentation will prove short-lived, as there are some on-ramps and off-ramps because of the central infrastructure provided through systems via TCH and FedNow.”. Ranta said FedNow will create broader competition in the market.

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TCH’s Waterhouse: Real-Time Payments’ 2021 Focus Is On Smarter, Safer

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According to Russ Waterhouse , executive vice president of Product Development and Strategy at The Clearing House (TCH), the surge in digitization brought on by the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the evolution of a range of RTP (Real-Time Payments) network advancements, including instant payroll, merchant settlements and tokenization.