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Mastercard and The Clearing House extend partnership on real-time payments

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Mastercard and The Clearing House (TCH) have announced an extended multi-year partnership, bringing the companies together to collaborate on innovative capabilities for consumers, businesses and governments to evolve and embrace the digital economy through real-time payments (RTP) adoption on the RTP® network.

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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. Achieving ubiquity across the 12,000 or so FIs in the U.S.

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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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Against that backdrop of moving away from paper payments, and toward ubiquitous real-time payments, TCH’s Waterhouse said there’s probably not a use case “that’s going to tip the scale here.” There’s room for RTP and ACH to co-exist, said Waterhouse, “for a very, very long time.”

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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. Fifth Third said it will go live on the RTP system in early 2018 and will support business and consumer transactions.

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Citizens Bank’s Corporate Real-Time Payments Play

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Some financial institutions (FIs) are seeking to help their corporate clients tap into real-time payments (RTP) to keep up the pace. . “We Citizens plans to provide greater payments speed to its clients this year by using the RTP rail developed by The Clearing House (TCH). The Corporate Case For Real Time. as an example.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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This new feature, available to PayPal customers in good standing, leverages the company’s partnership with Chase, and Chase’s connection to The Clearing House’s RTP network, to move money instantly into the bank accounts of consumers and SMBs. TCH is the association of the 25 largest banks in the U.S., the other being the Fed.

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Deep Dive: Weighing The Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Proposal

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is still scrambling to catch up, however, and major financial players are hoping it can achieve its own ubiquitous real-time payments system by next year. TCH, which is co-owned by 25 banks, launched Real-Time Payments (RTP) in November 2017. The Clearing House (TCH), for instance, has voiced its opposition.