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FedNow overtakes TCH in adoption

Bank Automation

FedNow, launched just eight months ago, has overtaken its main competitor, The Clearing Houseā€™s Real-Time Payments network, in terms of the number of banks on the platform.

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

Tearsheet

Mastercard recently expanded collaboration with The Clearing House (TCH), with the shared goal of propelling the adoption of instant payments. Mastercard’s collaboration with TCH dates back to 2017 when TCH introduced the RTP network, with Mastercard as the exclusive software provider for the network.

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The Fed Debuts FedNow

PYMNTS

Introduced on Monday by Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard, the Fedā€™s instant payment scheme FedNow is designed to offer an option for consumers and business to transfer money instantly or nearly instantly in a ā€œubiquitous, safe and efficientā€ manner from one bank account to another. ā€œThe Why Now For FedNow.

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ACI moves real-time payments onboarding to cloud

Bank Automation

The payments service provider already onboards bank clients to the Federal Reserveā€™s FedNow payments network through its real-time payments cloud, so moving The Clearing Houseā€™s (TCH) deployment to the cloud will offer ā€œsimilar benefits,ā€ […]

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Real-Time Payments Move Past Early Adopters

PYMNTS

And beyond TCH and RTP, the Federal Reserveā€™s FedNow real-time payments solution looms. Ranta said FedNow will create broader competition in the market. But that fragmentation will prove short-lived, as there are some on-ramps and off-ramps because of the central infrastructure provided through systems via TCH and FedNow.ā€.

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

PYMNTS

Federal Reserve, where details (a roadmap, really) of FedNow , the proposed instant payment system, were released earlier this month. Waterhouse said that in terms of TCHā€™s own initiatives in getting banks on board the ongoing effort to make RTP ubiquitous across the entirety of the U.S. Whatā€™s Next.