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UK Faster Payments Scheme Eases Access For Developers

PYMNTS

But the potential of near-real-time payments offered by Faster Payments can only be realized when financial service providers join that scheme. Last week, Faster Payments aimed to ease the friction associated with getting financial service providers on board with the scheme. s broader faster payments efforts.

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Seeking A Better Way To Test The Newest Payments Tech

PYMNTS

Alongside the expansion of payments technologies, payment testing service providers have had to grow and flex to meet market needs. PYMNTS wanted to know more about how FinTech has forced financial service providers to change the way they deliver payment solutions and change the way they approach the testing of those payment tools. “A

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Rethinking CBDCs: Addressing design flaws and privacy concerns

The Payments Association

Accounts Nearly all of the prevailing CBDC proposals assume that money must always be held in accounts maintained by a service provider, making that service provider a de facto custodian, and suggesting that bearer instruments have no place in the future of digital money. But the damage was done. But the damage was done.

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