Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Nexi Germany GmbH, part of leading European PayTech, Nexi Group has signed a contract with Wero operator EPI (European Payments Initiative). As a regulated payment service provider, Nexi now has the licence to connect merchants and service providers for Wero acceptance.

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FICO

APRIL 6, 2020

In my last post I wrote about the fraud and financial crime problems the USA is likely to encounter as real-time payments increase in both value and volume. In countries such as the UK, real-time payment schemes have been ubiquitous for many years. What Can the Industry & Real-Time Payments Schemes Do?

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

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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Fintech Finance

JULY 10, 2024

AFFIN Group (“AFFIN” or “the Group”) today announced a partnership with ACI Worldwide , a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, to modernise the Bank’s real-time payment capabilities. In attendance at the contract signing to represent YBhg. billion in 2023 to 4.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

Each year, for the past three years, financial services firm FIS publishes its Flavors of Fast report, an examination of various faster payments initiatives. The report looks at 28 real-time payments initiatives currently in the works throughout the globe.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Payment service provider CreDec is integrating real-time payments capabilities that will allow small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and their accountants to bypass bank portals and initiate payments from directly within their accounting platforms. The company said in a press release Thursday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2017

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Dozens of countries already have real-time payments programs in operation, with several more under development, as identified by financial services technology provider FIS in its latest Flavors of Fast report. Those who wait may find themselves left behind as the faster payments revolution takes hold.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Three of Australia’s four largest banks have rolled out real-time payments capabilities as the government launches a widespread inquiry into the financial services sector. 13) local time said Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and National Australia Bank (NAB) have begun to offer their customers real-time payments services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

“That’s probably the number one request we get, when we’re asked, ‘Is there anything you can do about turnaround time of ACH?’” It’s out of our control, so we cannot wait for real-time payments to come into effect in the U.S. and Canada.”.

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The Paypers

JULY 23, 2021

The Central Bank of Brazil has announced that it will incorporate a payment initiation service into its central bank-backed real-time payment system PIX.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2018

A new survey by ACI Worldwide and Ovum found evidence that financial institutions (FIs) are more willing to open up their data via API and are embracing real-time payments initiatives. They’re followed by 86 percent of banks in Asia and 82 percent of banks in the Americas.

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Fintech News

APRIL 18, 2024

This license allows Brankas to offer enhanced transparency in payment transactions, providing businesses and their customers with real-time visibility into account balances during transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

VocaLink offers a solution for central infrastructures to manage the clearing of real-time payments according to the rules decided by a particular country or region. Faster Payments and the Singapore FAST schemes and is also being implemented in the U.S. The solution supports the central infrastructures of the U.K.

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Payments Source

DECEMBER 2, 2020

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

This week, Karen Webster was joined again by NACHA President and CEO Jan Estep to discuss the relationship between Same Day ACH and other faster payments initiatives — namely, real-time payments and blockchain. What’s Under The Faster Payments Umbrella? Where The Blockchain Fits.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

It should come as no surprise that real-time payments remain a focal point. We’ve had some success around the world helping real-time [payment] providers leverage our [open source] technology to launch new services and capabilities,” Feldmann said. Blockchain, Too.

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FICO

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Once third-party providers such as Account Information Service Providers (AISPs) and Payment Initiation Service Providers (PISPs) are up and running, the checkout will present you with a choice of paying by card or directly from your account. PISP Services Coupled with Real-Time Payments will Be More Attractive to Merchants.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

That was the day that an advocacy group, Financial Innovation Now (FIN), submitted a public comment letter to the Fed in response to its proposal to create and operate a real-time payments system in the U.S. The letter cited what has become the all-too-familiar talking point about the state of faster payments in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

There is no dearth of faster payments initiatives — and no certainty that there will be one faster payments scheme to rule them all. As part of the pilot, he said, the Fed is currently working with financial institutions and processors to identify and design the mechanisms for that easy access.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Demand is there, pent up, for greenfield opportunities to bring speed and digitization to payments across a range of use cases. As noted in the May Faster Payments Tracker , the global real-time payments market is expected to grow 30 percent between 2018 and 2025.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2017

Among this rising demand among corporates for their banks to standardize and centralize payment processes, Nordea noted that there has been a coinciding rise in FinTech innovation, from real-time payments to collaborations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Several years later, the initiative has made big strides as other markets around the globe look to the U.K. to launch their own faster payments efforts. But there is still a long ways to go, and in the several years since the Faster Payments initiative first began, it’s also morphed to evolve along with the technology available.

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Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Volt , the global real-time payments platform, has secured an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence from the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Volt’s licence will enable it to evolve its cash management product, Connect, from which virtual accounts will now be issued to merchants.

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Finovate

MARCH 7, 2025

Looking at Europe specifically, what role has the European Payments Initiative (EPI) played in driving this trend? Neal: While still in its early stages, the European Payments Initiative (EPI) is playing a crucial role in reshaping the EU payment landscape.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

However, blockchain is also gaining ground, and currency is offering a boost to the payments infrastructure. To that end, IBM said it launched its Blockchain World Wire , billed as a cross-border payment system that is powered by the Stellar blockchain network.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Access to real-time payments (RTP) could resolve various headaches for businesses, as many do not want to face the uncertainties associated with late payment deliveries to suppliers and employees. Firms also crave access to precise, real-time financial information so they can better manage their liquidities.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

Still, others have said that B2B payments should be largely left out of the faster payments conversation. remains in its early days of faster and real-time payments adoption, so neither of these two schools of thought have been proven correct.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Faster and real-time payments are generally considered a benefit for the consumer payments world. finally making inroads in its faster payments initiatives, it’s now time to see whether faster payments will make their way into the B2B sphere too. But with the U.S. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

.” Todd Aadland, VP of industry relations at the Fed, and Connie Theien, the Fed’s SVP and payments security strategy leader, offered PYMNTS more insight into how the Federal Reserve will tackle the issue of payments security, especially as faster payments initiatives from the Fed and other players change the game.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Same Day ACH, the faster payments initiative for banks and other financial institutions in the United States, seems to be popular. still has a long way to go and plenty of faster payment lessons to learn. Canada and Europe found 90 percent of respondents are mulling blockchain technology for payments. But the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Less than two months after its implementation, Same Day ACH, the ubiquitous faster payments initiative for the payments industry in the United States, is showing a significant impact on the market, but it still has plenty to learn from those across the pond. In October alone, the ACH Network processed nearly $5 billion in 3.8

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

You can test all you want, but for payments innovators, the true test only comes when a solution is released out into the real world. s Faster Payments initiative, there have already been some changes made to the service that looks to support real-time transacting. For the U.K.’s is all about flexibility.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

that integrates real-time payments capability directly within the Xero platform. It’s a FinTech-to-FinTech-to-bank connection in which CreDec connects a small business’s bank account to its Virtual Account solution, which is integrated into Xero for imbedded payment initiation capabilities.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

New faster payment initiatives are popping up around the world, from Saudi Arabia to Brazil to Australia. According to the latest PYMNTS Faster Payments Tracker , Same Day ACH volume has seen a 24 percent increase year over year between the first quarter of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019. In the U.S.,

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