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Deep Dive: The Benefits And Challenges Of Real-Time Push Payments

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That consideration includes assessing the potential benefits and risks that come with the two fundamental types of bank payments: push and pull transactions. This month’s Deep Dive explores how push payments speed transactions, as well as the benefits and potential challenges of their use in real-time payment systems.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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The letter highlighted that access to the payments systems today is only possible through incumbent intermediaries – the banks and the card networks – which have not kept pace with the needs of consumers and businesses. It flew in on Dec. 14, the Friday before the week before Christmas, so you might not have noticed.

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When Instant Payments Are Just Payments

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Driven by faster phones, ingenious apps and sheer market force, the move to instant is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with payments, opening up new worlds of risk and reward. Rarely do consumers and businesses agree on anything as much as they have on instant. FinTechs led this charge and fueled much of the innovation.

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The Complicated — And Increasingly Crowded — Payments Battle In China

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Some question whether the card-payment network operator will be able to overcome the struggle to “remain relevant” in a market that is quickly changing — and where consumers may soon be leaving card-based payments behind entirely. UnionPay is facing an increasingly competitive and complicated world these days.

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Fighting Scams and Authorized Push Payment Fraud in the US

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Fighting Scams and Authorized Push Payment Fraud in the US. US regulators seem poised to update the status quo for bank liability for authorized user/authorized push payment fraud, but just how big is the potential? In multiple geographies around the world, there has been a strong focus on authorized push payment fraud.

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Bridging The Gap Between Appearance And Reality Of Instant Payments

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On the front end, funds are pushed to the end consumer and are possibly even available for instant use. For example, push to debit card options might put money into a consumer’s or SMB’s bank account instantly, with settlement happening a day or two later. Consumers, not so much.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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Prepaid payroll cards were introduced decades ago as a paper check alternative for the unbanked and underbanked worker. Over the last several years, an army of innovators with billions in venture funding have built instant pay products on top of card network debit rails. if you can just hang in there until about 2024.