faster payments

Faster Payments Service (FPS) is a UK banking initiative to reduce payment times between different banks' customer accounts from the three working days that transfers take using the long-established BACS system, to typically a few seconds.

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Innovation traditionally moves faster than regulation. Except, as it seems, when it sometimes comes to modernizing legacy banking and payments core infrastructure, where regulation can...

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TurboTax has introduced what it calls a first-of-its-kind tax refund offering. It’s part of a suite of new offerings the Intuit-owned tax filing service introduced...

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