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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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Against that backdrop of moving away from paper payments, and toward ubiquitous real-time payments, TCH’s Waterhouse said there’s probably not a use case “that’s going to tip the scale here.” Kresse, of FIS, echoed that sentiment, stating the company has seen a “massive increase in ACH volumes” for FIs, at a quickening pace.

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

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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 To facilitate this transition in handling 24/7 cash flow, Whisler said TCH offers services such as intraday reconciliation.

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Real-Time Payments Move Past Early Adopters

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And beyond TCH and RTP, the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments solution looms. But that fragmentation will prove short-lived, as there are some on-ramps and off-ramps because of the central infrastructure provided through systems via TCH and FedNow.”. Ranta said FedNow will create broader competition in the market. consumers).

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TCH’s Waterhouse: Real-Time Payments’ 2021 Focus Is On Smarter, Safer

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According to Russ Waterhouse , executive vice president of Product Development and Strategy at The Clearing House (TCH), the surge in digitization brought on by the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the evolution of a range of RTP (Real-Time Payments) network advancements, including instant payroll, merchant settlements and tokenization. “We

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The Clearing House’s Strategies To Drive RTP Uptake

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Payers have to know that payees will accept certain payment methods before making purchases, and payees do not want to invest until they know payment instruments are in demand. Banking association and payments company The Clearing House (TCH) has been confronting such concerns as it advances its real-time payment ( RTP ) offering in the U.S.,

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Control Vs. Convenience Shapes Debate As FIs Adopt Faster Payments

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Retailers frequently need to hire seasonal workers to help keep up with demand during the holiday shopping season. Meeting business clients’ demands for rapid payments can be tricky, and FIs may need to modernize many processes as well as decide between forging direct rail access or tapping third parties to help them connect.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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The combination of employee/employer demand for innovations in this area and innovators with the vision to build products on top of those cheap networks will only continue to create solutions that close the paycheck-to-paycheck funds gap for workers – whether they are working full-time or gig-time.