payment rails

A payment rail is a payment platform or a payment network that moves money from a payer to a payee. Either party could be a consumer or business, and both parties are able to move funds on the network. Credit card rails are the credit card payment system.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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After listening to and scrolling through days of “expert” commentary about the lawsuit filed by the DOJ against Visa over debit interchange, I feel compelled...

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The Bank of England said Thursday (July 18) that a global payments issue that was affecting CHAPS, the United Kingdom’s high-value payment system, is now resolved. “We...

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The FedNow Service instant payments system is slated to launch next year — a culmination of an effort stretching out more than three-and-a-half years, a...

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