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Fed, TCH joust over interoperability

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When it comes to bridging the FedNow and RTP networks, officials at the Federal Reserve and The Clearing House have slightly different priorities.

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

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But with a 2023-24 timeframe to implementation, the Fed’s efforts will take a while to cross the Rubicon from concept to reality. Waiting for the Fed — and its promise of interoperability, which requires participation from the private sector — is akin to playing the (very) long game. Jack Henry … And Aiming For Ubiquity.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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This new feature, available to PayPal customers in good standing, leverages the company’s partnership with Chase, and Chase’s connection to The Clearing House’s RTP network, to move money instantly into the bank accounts of consumers and SMBs. This delay was initiated by the Fed. Okay, so maybe the Fed’s payments folks are just busy.

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The Fed Debuts FedNow

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The Fed plans to build its own instant clearing and settlement rails. We only get to make this kind of decision once every 30 or 40 years,” Brainard said, noting that this was the biggest payments oriented move made by The Fed since the early 1970s and the implementation of the ACH system. “At It’s now official. Brainard asked.

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P2P Payments Set The Stage For B2B RTP

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In recent months, though, real-time payments (RTP) have garnered more interest and no shortage of headlines in the U.S. The Clearing House [TCH] launched its own RTP network at the end of 2017.). Cheney told PYMNTS that several factors underpin the readiness for that shift toward RTP. RTP And RFP.

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TCH, FIS Submit Real-Time Payments Vision To Fed

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The Clearing House (TCH), the payments firm owned by commercial banks, said that, at the end of last week, it offered up a proposal alongside FIS to the Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Task Force requesting evaluation of its real-time payments (RTP) system. TCH and FIS have been working together since October of last year.

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FedNow’s Montgomery: Gearing Up For 2023-24 — And Instant Payments Competition

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As reported in August, the Fed had announced some additional details of the 24/7 year-round interbank settlement service through a program that began to take shape in 2019, geared toward speeding processing times tied to instant payments (and featuring a clearing function). Looking Toward Interoperability And Scale . The Timeframe .