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The Fed Should Develop Its Own Real-Time Payments, Say Three Former Fed Payment Experts

Tom Groenfeldt

Fed payment experts think the central bank should build and operate a real-time payments network to provide competition to the TCH network operated by the largest banks.

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Fed, TCH joust over interoperability

Payments Dive

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 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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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Connecting these two dots suggests a few important things that, for banks and card networks, might be the 2020 hindsight that could have come in handy had they stopped to look backwards a few years ago: That the Fed has much more than a passing interest in how faster payments are run in the U.S. This delay was initiated by the Fed.

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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. What’s Next.

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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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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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That’s the talk track now from the Fed , which a week ago today announced its plans to build and operate a new set of real-time rails, using accelerated access to employer paychecks as its launch use case. It’s also not why the Fed decided to enter the real-time payments fray. The Fed’s Not-so-Fast Ambitions. financial system.