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s Real-TimeGrossSettlement (RTGS) system. payments authority, Pay.UK, is developing a New Payments Architecture that will upgrade Britain’s Faster Payments real-time retail system. The Bank of England is upgrading the U.K.’s Separately, the U.K.
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FIN also recognizes that getting the Fed’s interoperable network up and running will take some time, so in the interim its members would like to have direct access to the Fed’s national payments settlement system.
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