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Real-Time Payments Go Beyond The Need For Speed

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Banks have been playing catch-up with FinTechs in the bid to bring speed to their processes, especially when it comes to B2B payments. The conversation came across a backdrop of more than 50 real-time payment systems currently live around the world, although largely domestic and regional in nature. That said, the U.S.

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Italy Makes Its Move In Real-Time Payments

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Intesa Sanpaolo announced Tuesday (April 18) that it has successfully completed its first testing activities with EBA Clearing, using technology by Dovetail for pan-European real-time payments. Reports in January first surfaced that EBA Clearing was testing its own real-time payments solution compliant with EU payment standards.

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Swift, Lloyds deliver real-time cross-border payments in U.K. through GPI Instant

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After tests with several banks that established Swift's ability to connect its Global Payments Initiative faster payments rail to domestic networks, the financial and messaging standards organization is activating the service in the U.K.

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Past Lessons May Prove Invaluable For US Real-Time Payments Rollout

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Real-time payments initiatives are under way all across the globe, but there is little consistency across jurisdictions regarding how the financial services sector takes on the initiative or where each market is at in terms of progress in achieving real-time payments capabilities. In the U.S.,

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The Not-So-Beaten Path To B2B Payments Real-Time Ubiquity

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The global payments ecosystem’s path to faster and real-time payments ubiquity is an evolution, not a revolution. That is to say, mass adoption will take time, and the factors driving that adoption will almost certainly continue to change and shift as end users’ needs do the same.

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Can On-Demand Pay Stop QSRs’ Employee Churn?

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Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will launch its own real-time payment and settlement system called FedNow. The much-awaited decision dismayed large banks that regard a government-run system as unnecessary competition with their own real-time rail, The Clearing House’s Real Time Payments (RTP).

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Time For B2B Payments To Get Standardized, Says Nordea

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For a few years the corporate banking space has been discussing the potential for ISO 20022 to streamline payments, with industry forces like SWIFT and SEPA promoting its adoption. But, according to Nordea, obstacles remain for ISO 20022 to take off as a payments messaging standard and provide corporates the efficiency they need.