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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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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. In July 2023, FedNow was launched to the public and after a year of being out in the wild, over 600 financial institutions have adopted the instant payment method. ” And this is exactly what it did. .”

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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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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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Transactions: Mastercard, The Clearing House extend RTP collaboration

Bank Automation

Mastercard will be the exclusive instant payments software provider for The Clearing Houseā€™s (TCH) RTP network, according to a news release from Mastercard. TCHā€™s RTP network has been gaining traction since the launch of FedNow, with more […]

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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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