Remove End User Remove Good Funds Remove Use Case
article thumbnail

Breaking Down The Faster Payments Construct

PYMNTS

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. Take merchant acquirers who wish to expedite the posting of funds on the same day to a merchant’s bank account.

article thumbnail

PODCAST: Solving Instant Payments Ubiquity Problem

PYMNTS

The concept is both incredibly simple and incredibly intuitive: Offer customers 24/7 access to good funds on demand, however and wherever they want them. But use cases for instant push payments aren’t the only thing rapidly proliferating, Edwards and McFarland noted. Edwards said.

article thumbnail

Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

PYMNTS

Card rails are using push payments to close those gaps and support many new use cases for instant money. Both card networks are pushing money over their debit rails and instantly into the bank accounts of consumers and SMBs using their debit card aliases. See First Data and Fiserv. See Visa and Earthport.

article thumbnail

How Uncertainty Kills Commerce

PYMNTS

Businesses wait to be paid by their buyers — not knowing when the money will actually be received, if it is good funds and sometimes how much they’ll get. So do their corporate customers: certainty that there are good funds and certainty about when they can access the money. Businesses spend a lot of time waiting too.