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Clearing Up Instant Payments No ‘Stop Payment’ Confusion

PYMNTS

We’re living in nirvana right now with push-to-card and corporate disbursements and P2P [peer-to-peer] payments going instant because it hasn’t become high profile enough for the real bad actors to start showing up.”. . Consumers love the opportunity to get paid instantly when they can.

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How Fraud Changes in the World of Real-Time Payments

FICO

While e-wallets and person-to-person schemes offer people quick and easy ways to pay, they have been underpinned by pre-existing payment systems, either card schemes or ACH transfers. For example, ACH payments in the USA are cleared three times per day and card payments can take weeks for settlement to the merchant.

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Deep Dive: The Benefits And Challenges Of Real-Time Push Payments

PYMNTS

That consideration includes assessing the potential benefits and risks that come with the two fundamental types of bank payments: push and pull transactions. This month’s Deep Dive explores how push payments speed transactions, as well as the benefits and potential challenges of their use in real-time payment systems.

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Visa On Capturing The Digital Payments Opportunity In Latin America

PYMNTS

The last few years, he said, have changed the game in terms of Visa’s ability to give digital payments a nudge by giving acquirers and issuers an ability to reach both consumers and merchants without the need of either a card on one side of the transaction, or a terminal on the other. Tokens In The Cloud.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

PYMNTS

The letter highlighted that access to the payments systems today is only possible through incumbent intermediaries – the banks and the card networks – which have not kept pace with the needs of consumers and businesses. It flew in on Dec. 14, the Friday before the week before Christmas, so you might not have noticed.

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UK Losses to APP Scams Are Surging — What Can Banks Do?

FICO

The UK is home to the most sophisticated Authorized Push Payment (APP) scams in the world. In 2019, banks’ losses of £456 million nearly equaled the £470 million attributed to card not present (CNP) fraud. Now, in 2020, APP scams are expected to eclipse card fraud, fueled by niche schemes related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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What Check Fraud Can Teach Banks About Preparing For The Instant Payments Future

PYMNTS

Perhaps that’s why, in the midst of the seemingly never-ending stream of headlines about data breaches, account takeovers, stolen credit cards and online fraud , the notion of “check fraud” seems something of an outlier for the up-and-coming fraudster looking to make a decent living. And the death of checks – sooner rather than later.

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