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Businesses Want Real-Time Payments — What Will It Take To Get There?

PYMNTS

That’s the idea behind the recently launched Faster Payments Council (FPC), a group of payment industry participants with the goal of providing a ubiquitous payment system with near-immediate funds availability anywhere. New PYMNTS research painted a detailed picture of how the market is seemingly ready for such transactions.

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Does The Merchant And Consumers' Disconnect On The Pandemic’s Length Signal Trouble?

PYMNTS

PYMNTS’ latest data find that Main Street businesses and consumers are both gearing up for a longer disruption than they originally expected when the pandemic began. government PPP funding available in the event of another massive setback for the economy? This disconnect could become a dangerous pitfall should the U.S.

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New Report: Who’s Using Same-Day ACH And Why?

PYMNTS

Fourteen months since the Phase 1 roll out, 43 percent of financial institutions (FIs) now allow businesses to originate same-day ACH credit. However, 25 percent of FIs still do not offer SDA origination to business customers, given the lack of support from core processors and software providers, who have yet to make these features available.

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U.S. Faster Payments Council Publishes Interoperability White Paper

Faster Payments Council

Available in the FPC's Faster Payments Knowledge Center, the white paper explores different models that can connect systems together to achieve payments interoperability such as point of origination, network to network, or with an intermediary, and how settlement could work in those models. payment system.

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Fourteen Months In, Extra Credit For Faster (ACH) Credit?

PYMNTS

It has been 14 months since the first phase of Same Day ACH credits debuted, and in numbers via a joint study by PYMNTS and NACHA, business origination of Same Day ACH credit has been significant, with clear trends in place that show healthy use and demand. But others are pushing forward, particularly with respect to funds availability.

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For NACHA’s Same Day ACH, The Debit Debut

PYMNTS

From an origination perspective, that process is not mandatory, but here again, many larger firms and financial institutions “are ready to go from day one.” Here, all financial institutions must make funds from same-day credits available by 5:00 p.m. local time – where, previously, rules simply mandated end-of-day processing.

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What Does Return Mobile ACH Payment Mean?

Payment Savvy

Some of the most common ACH return codes are caused by incorrectly entered information or insufficient funds available, while others can be more complicated and include issues with authorization and more. Receiver The receiver is the individual or company that allows the Originator to initiate an ACH entry. What Are ACH returns?

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