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Faster Payments
The State Of Faster Payments: ‘Early Innings’
February 11, 2019

In the latest "State Of" podcast, Fiserv’s Vice President Tim Ruhe weighs in on why we are at the beginning of a long-term movement to real-time payments in the U.S. Even with 56 real-time payment rails on the horizon, and no shortage of complexity in connecting...

Deep Dive: Weighing The Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Proposal
February 04, 2019

Real-time payment systems are quickly cropping up across the globe. Twenty-five of them were operational worldwide in 2017, and that number had swelled to 40 by September 2018, with 16 more expected to debut by 2020. This rapid expansion is fueling predictions that the global...

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Citizens Bank’s Corporate Real-Time Payments Play
January 25, 2019

Small FIs and major retailers say the Federal Reserve can pave the way to provide a ubiquitous, real-time payments (RTP) system. However, The Clearing House argues that its own RTP rails are here and working, while adopting a second system could mean costs and delays....

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Who Will Lead The US To Real-Time Ubiquity By 2020?
January 24, 2019

It’s expected that more than 56 real-time payment rails will be live by 2020, and the U.S. is hoping to attain real-time payments ubiquity by that point. The demand for faster payments is strong in the U.S., but not all financial players agree on how...

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What Do Antilock Brakes And Instant Payments Have In Common?
January 21, 2019

“Can we all just agree that real-time access to money isn’t going to be an option anymore?” said Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards. That’s how Friday’s conversation between Edwards and Karen Webster started. Yet, according to the latest Disbursements Tracker, a collaborative effort between Ingo Money and PYMNTS,...

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine
January 21, 2019

There’s a canary in the faster payments coal mine. It flew in on Dec. 14, the Friday before the week before Christmas, so you might not have noticed. That was the day that an advocacy group, Financial Innovation Now (FIN), submitted a public comment letter...

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SWIFT gpi Used For More Than Half Of Cross-Border Traffic
December 18, 2018

SWIFT said Tuesday (December 18) that its SWIFT gpi payment service is being used for more than half of SWIFT’s cross-border traffic. In a press release, SWIFT said that 55 percent of SWIFT’s cross-border traffic has been via SWIFT gpi, with hundreds of billions in payments...

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Big Tech Companies Throw Support Behind Fed Creating Real-Time Payments Network
December 18, 2018

Amazon, Apple and Google are among the large tech companies that are throwing their support behind the creation of a real-time payments network in the U.S. led by the Federal Reserve. According to a report in the American Banker citing a letter submitted by a trade...

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SIA’s Third-Party Approach To RTGS
December 05, 2018

It's a daunting challenge for a country to create its own real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system, much less seamlessly migrate to it. However, third-party infrastructure providers can ease that burden, says SIA’s Mario De Lorenzo. In the latest Faster Payments Tracker, De Lorenzo tells PYMNTS...