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Mastercard and The Clearing House deepen their partnership to zero in on new instant payments applications 

Tearsheet

Mastercard recently expanded collaboration with The Clearing House (TCH), with the shared goal of propelling the adoption of instant payments. This extended partnership will focus on integrating additional instant payment use cases across a range of payment flows for consumers, businesses, and governments.

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Happy First Birthday FedNow: But is This a Cause For Celebration?

The Fintech Times

Last year, the US Federal Reserve launched FedNow as a competitive alternative for instant payments in the US. Celebrating its first birthday, we review how the instant payments service has been adopted over the past year. Are instant payment methods becoming more mainstream in the US?

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Transactions: Mastercard, The Clearing House extend RTP collaboration

Bank Automation

Mastercard extended its collaboration with The Clearing House today to allow customers and businesses to use real-time payments. Mastercard will be the exclusive instant payments software provider for The Clearing House’s (TCH) RTP network, according to a news release from Mastercard.

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

PYMNTS

There is no dearth of faster payments initiatives — and no certainty that there will be one faster payments scheme to rule them all. Along the way, not surprisingly, we’ll transition more fully to digital payments across modernized (and streamlined) rails, flowing domestically and eventually across borders.

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The Fed Debuts FedNow

PYMNTS

The Fed plans to build its own instant clearing and settlement rails. The Fed’s interest in faster payments was never simply as an interested, but passive, bystander … The Fed sees an opportunity to introduce competition in the faster payments space as a second operator of faster payments rails, like it is today with ACH,” she noted.

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Faster Payment Networks are a ‘Must-Have’ for 78% of US-Based Financial Firms

The Fintech Times

Financial firms in the US are highly interested in faster payment networks, with 78 per cent saying it is a ‘must-have’ for their organisation; according to Volante Technologies , the payments-as-a-service (PaaS) firm.

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Open Payment Network partners with Bankers' Bank

The Paypers

Open Payment Network (OPN) has partnered with Bankers’ Bank to enable the bank to deliver instant payment services to respondents via API connectivity to TCH-RTP and FedNow.