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AppBrilliance Brings Real-Time Frictionless Payments to Closed Loop Digital Wallets With RTP & FedNow

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Companies like Starbucks , CVS , Dunkin ’, Chick-fil-A and many other successful businesses have long provided engaging customer payment experiences with their closed-loop wallets, but had to rely on funding those accounts with conventional payment sources like debit/credit cards or ACH. Outside the U.S.,

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Visa, Wave Team To Bring Instant Payouts To Micropreneurs

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Until recently, “now” was almost never an option, since it was always based on when the funds had cleared, regardless of how that payment was made. Wave already vets its merchants to make sure they are legitimate users, and that the funds moving to them are good funds.

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Western Union Enables Real-Time Account-To-Account X-Border Payments For Banks, Digital Wallets

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Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek told Karen Webster that real time means that receivers will have funds available to spend within minutes, enabling new real-time, cross-border, cross-currency payments capabilities for C2C, B2C and B2B use cases. “We

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How Uncertainty Kills Commerce

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The Demands of On-Demand. We live in an on-demand world. And, in an on-demand world, there’s nothing worse than waiting. Businesses wait to be paid by their buyers — not knowing when the money will actually be received, if it is good funds and sometimes how much they’ll get. The Sinking Ship of Sunk Costs.

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The Roil Over B2B Payments Rails

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Travel by train was a mode of transportation perceived by many as outdated as the horse-drawn carriages that first pulled rail cars on them, but Buffet observed the role that railroads played in driving economic growth because of the efficient, low-cost and reliable way they moved goods across the country.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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In other words, innovators – as innovators are wont to do – are using new tech and their own creativity to bridge the regulated, secure legacy systems in place today with new ways to create value in a dynamic, digital and on-demand world. There’s a canary in the faster payments coalmine. It flew in on Dec. it has been since the fall of 2017.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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The regulator notified NACHA that they need more time to evaluate required changes to their system before giving it the green light. The Fed also said NACHA needed to open their decision to public comment, even though NACHA said a third processing window was “overwhelmingly approved” by FIs on Sept. No date has been given for that process.