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

PYMNTS

A lot of what the pandemic did was force our industry to truly be digital, to facilitate frictionless transactions,” TCH Senior Vice President Elena Whisler said in a recent conversation with PYMNTS. “It One thing is customer service, but the other is liquidity management or cash flow forecasting, and that's new to a lot of organizations.”.

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

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Mastercard recently expanded collaboration with The Clearing House (TCH), with the shared goal of propelling the adoption of instant payments. Mastercard’s collaboration with TCH dates back to 2017 when TCH introduced the RTP network, with Mastercard as the exclusive software provider for the network.

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Deep Dive: Weighing The Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Proposal

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TCH, which is co-owned by 25 banks, launched Real-Time Payments (RTP) in November 2017. The system would facilitate 24/7 year-round interbank settlements of faster payments and also provide a liquidity management tool to support transfers between Federal Reserve accounts. The Federal Approach.

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Citizens Bank’s Corporate Real-Time Payments Play

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Citizens plans to provide greater payments speed to its clients this year by using the RTP rail developed by The Clearing House (TCH). The FI, one of TCH’s owner banks, aims to offer its customers real-time payments during the first half of 2019, and give them the ability in later months to send them. . Federal Reserve Proposals.

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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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FedNow’s Montgomery: Gearing Up For 2023-24 — And Instant Payments Competition

PYMNTS

He said there are going to be some institutions that will want to connect with both instant payment services — FedNow and The Clearing House (TCH)’s real-time payments ( RTP ) network — in a desire to ensure resiliency and redundancy to support outages in one system to the other, if they were to occur. Digital Dollars, Too? .

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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.