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Past Lessons May Prove Invaluable For US Real-Time Payments Rollout

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Real-time payments initiatives are under way all across the globe, but there is little consistency across jurisdictions regarding how the financial services sector takes on the initiative or where each market is at in terms of progress in achieving real-time payments capabilities. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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SWIFT Signals Further Openness To Blockchain?

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The movement to bring blockchain to cross-border payments proceeds apace. I think that it’s really interesting, everything that’s gone on in the payments space around DLT.”. The year] 2019 is about Request For Payment (RFP). Might SWIFT be giving a nod, at least partially, toward the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT)?

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Breaking Down The Faster Payments Construct

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Two new same-day settlement windows will be added to the ACH Network, which will increase the actual movement of funds between all those financial institutions from once a day (at the beginning of the day) to three times a day. What’s Under The Faster Payments Umbrella? Both are about moving payments faster than they are today.”.

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Rediscovering The Missing Principles Of Faster Payments

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Considering the country has more than 14,000 financial institutions (FIs), it’s clear that both scale and ubiquity are critical to solve the faster payments problem. It may require taking a look at a market that truly “gets” faster payments, which can be found by just looking north. But how is the industry supposed to get there?

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What’s Fast And Slow And Read All Over?

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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. The grandness of his vision and success, with a proof of concept, prompted him to reach out to the U.S. government to share his ideas.

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