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

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While each of the aforementioned countries has advanced their digital payment infrastructures, the US has lagged behind. In fact, in 2023 , real-time payments only made up one per cent of all payments in the country. Are instant payment methods becoming more mainstream in the US? What is actually popular?

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Coming Together To Bring Faster Payments To Life

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When The Clearing House (TCH), the payments firm owned by commercial banks, along with global software and services provider FIS, recently submitted their proposal to the Fed’s Faster Payments Task Force in order to evaluate their real-time payments system proposal, it signified a milestone along the path toward real-time payments.

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

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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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Finserv Providers Embrace New Rails For Faster B2B Payments

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While firms like Diamante and SatoshiPay embrace blockchain, traditional players like Wells Fargo and HSBC are relying on RTP to accelerate corporate payments. HSBC Bank is introducing real-time payments capabilities to its corporate clients by connecting into the RTP network, allowing businesses to send and receive RTP payments.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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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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Collaborations Bringing Faster Payments Up To Speed

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Here’s a sneak peek: The ultimate goal, Waterhouse said, is ubiquity – namely, to make real-time payments mainstream. “We There are a lot of non-payment messaging capabilities that we think will provide tremendous opportunity for innovation.”.