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The Clearing House On The Race for Real-Time Payments In The US

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These efforts include TCH’s efforts to connect financial institutions’ (FIs’) core banking systems to the company’s Real-Time Payments (RTP) network, along with what card networks and FinTechs are doing to enable real-time push payments to receiver bank accounts.

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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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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.

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Citizens Bank’s Corporate Real-Time Payments Play

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As they work to achieve this, more companies are ditching paper-based methods and embracing digital solutions that streamline payments and reconciliations. Some financial institutions (FIs) are seeking to help their corporate clients tap into real-time payments (RTP) to keep up the pace. . “We as an example.

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Real-Time Payments Successfully Gets Through Its First Test Drive

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was moved between accounts at two different banks (there was only one customer with two bank accounts) via RTP, the name for a new “Real-Time Payments” system set up by The Clearing House. The system sees some business actually attaching paper checks to account files just so they can match payment with bills.

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From Cash To Real-Time Payments

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Forty countries: That’s how many places either have real-time payments programs in progress or live. Along the way they dug into important data points that describe not only the current status of real-time payments , but the opportunities that could help spark further growth. That’s progress.

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Payments Provider Contis Teams With UK FinTech Ordo On Real-Time Payments

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European payments provider Contis is partnering with U.K.-based Contis works in real-time payments, while Ordo has been working to simplify the process of getting paid through safe bank transactions and automatic tracking for payments, the release stated.