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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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FIS Links Fifth Third Clients To Real-Time Payments

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FIS will bridge Fifth Third into The Clearing House’s (TCH) Real-Time Payments (RTP) system to enable real-time transacting for customers. We are excited to be working with TCH and our banking clients to realize benefits of this breakthrough new system.”. “As

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P2P Payments Set The Stage For B2B RTP

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The Clearing House [TCH] launched its own RTP network at the end of 2017.). RTP And RFP. However, RFP is directly linked to payments made as a result of the request — an advantage that can streamline the whole process for a range of companies, from the smallest firms to the largest mortgage services and telecom giants like Verizon.

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Deep Dive: Billing And The Use Of Real-Time Payments

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When The Clearing House (TCH) unveiled the Real-Time Payments (RTP) system in 2017, it propelled swifter payments and brought about the next generation of fund transfers. It wasn’t the first to roll out such a system, but it was the first “major payments upgrade” in the U.S. in approximately four decades. .