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U.S. Faster Payments Council Publishes Operational Considerations for Receiving Instant Payments Guideline

Fintech Finance

With contributions from industry experts, the guideline aims to help FIs enhance their operational readiness for real-time payments, including RTP® and FedNow®. I truly think this will be a huge asset to banks as they make their journey into the world of RTP and FedNow.”

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Mastercard and The Clearing House deepen their partnership to zero in on new instant payments applications 

Tearsheet

“Beyond extending our partnership with Mastercard, we intend to partner on innovating for the banks that use the network by looking for additional use cases that they’ve expressed interest in and that would help drive volume across RTP,” said Lee Alexander, Executive VP and CIO at The Clearing House.

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Corporate America Credit Union To Serve As RTP Funding Agent

PYMNTS

The Corporate America Credit Union (CACU), which serves almost 500 credit unions (CUs) around the world, has become a funding agent for the RTP network, The Clearing House ’s (TCH) real-time payments network, according to a release.

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Mastercard and The Clearing House extend partnership on real-time payments

Fintech Finance

Mastercard and The Clearing House (TCH) have announced an extended multi-year partnership, bringing the companies together to collaborate on innovative capabilities for consumers, businesses and governments to evolve and embrace the digital economy through real-time payments (RTP) adoption on the RTP® network. demand deposit accounts.

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New Year’s Resolution: The Clearing House Urges Banks To Become 24/7 Operations

PYMNTS

In short, the global pandemic has ushered in rising usage — and use cases — for TCH’s RTP ® network, and Whisler doesn’t see that slowing down anytime soon. We've seen a lot of excitement this year with the RTP ® network, and we're very much expecting next year to grow even faster,” she said. Becoming A 24/7 RTP Shop.

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RTP: Achieving Ubiquity Without A Mandate

PYMNTS

As more use cases for real-time payments emerge around applications like business-to-business (B2B) supplier payments, real-time liquidity management and “invisible payments,” Killam also noted that more challenges would arise, too, around areas like fraud and integration. In the U.S.

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Happy First Birthday FedNow: But is This a Cause For Celebration?

The Fintech Times

Up to this point, US financial institutions have relied on The Clearing House ‘s (TCH) Real-Time Payments Network (RTP), run by big banks. Banks have a difficult choice between TCH’s RTP network and the new kid on the block, FedNow. In fact, in 2023 , real-time payments only made up one per cent of all payments in the country.

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