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

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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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Can On-Demand Pay Stop QSRs’ Employee Churn?

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The faster payments landscape is changing rapidly, most recently with the U.S. Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will launch its own real-time payment and settlement system called FedNow. Deep Dive: The Challenges and Benefits of ISO 20022 Migration. Get the full story in the Tracker. Read more in the Tracker.

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

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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). Interoperability Is Key. To get there, interoperability is key, said Cunha.

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Real-Time Payments Go Beyond The Need For Speed

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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.