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

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You’d be forgiven for thinking that faster payments might be the purview of the U.S. Federal Reserve, where details (a roadmap, really) of FedNow , the proposed instant payment system, were released earlier this month. Real time is getting ever closer to prime time. But it might not be the Federal Reserve ’s doing.

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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 It also pushed our industry to think about ways to provide faster availability of funds to people and businesses in need.”.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Take two announcements from just last week, related to the evolution of faster payments in the U.S. First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day. Then came PayPal’s debut of Instant Transfer to Bank.

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RTP, Blockchain Make Inroads Within Corporations

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PYMNTS examines the latest initiatives that look to improve upon existing rails, or embrace new ones like blockchain and RTP. RTP Expands Across FI Base. are increasingly linking into the real-time payments infrastructure of the RTP network, according to a new survey by The Clearing House.

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The Clearing House’s Strategies To Drive RTP Uptake

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Banking association and payments company The Clearing House (TCH) has been confronting such concerns as it advances its real-time payment ( RTP ) offering in the U.S., according to Steve Ledford, TCH’s senior vice president of Product Strategy and Development. That [arrangement] was never going to fly in the U.S.”.

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P2P Payments Set The Stage For B2B RTP

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It’s a well-known fact, too, that corporate payments (the B2B kind) are ripe for digitization, and for a wholesale move away from the paper chase, where checks are still stubbornly tied to 50 percent of corporate transactions. The Clearing House [TCH] launched its own RTP network at the end of 2017.). RTP And RFP.

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Deep Dive: Weighing The Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Proposal

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This rapid expansion is fueling predictions that the global real-time payments market will rise from a value of $6.8 Numerous payments schemes have rolled out since the U.K. launched its own Faster Payments Service in 2008. bank account would be able to securely receive real-time payments by 2020. . State of U.S.