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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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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. However there is one difference: FedNow is primarily targeted at banks – not at consumers.

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Federal Reserve’s Cunha on the State (and Timeframe) of Digital Dollars

PYMNTS

Interoperability Is Key. To get there, interoperability is key, said Cunha. He pointed to standards seen with ISO 20022 as a guidepost for such CBDC interplay — whether retail or wholesale payments are being coordinated (at present most central banks’ CBDC initiatives are focused on wholesale payments).

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5 Lessons the U.S. Can Learn from India’s UPI

Finovate

Since then, the payments infrastructure has seen massive growth, having reached its peak in December of last year, when it surpassed 12 billion transactions worth $220 billion (Rs 18.23 launched its real time payments initiative, FedNow , last July and has a lot to learn from India’s UPI. As the U.S. In the U.S.,

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To Accelerate Payments, Mix Rails Or Nix Rails?

PYMNTS

But it’s not the only new payment network securing attention this week in PYMNTS’ latest roundup of the payments rails ecosystem. Elsewhere, in Australia, industry body New Payments Platform Australia (NPPA) publicized its own plans to do exactly that: add integrated, value-added features to the payments platform.

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Real-Time Payments Go Beyond The Need For Speed

PYMNTS

But the Federal Reserve has its own horse in the race, called FedNow , which is on the horizon. Fifth Third’s Chayt said the need for speed might have gotten real-time payments initiatives off the ground, but that’s just a starting point. That was then, this is now.”.