real time payments

Real time payments – also known as realtime payments, instant payments or immediate payments as electronic retail payment solutions that are available 24/7/365.

Astra Taps Visa Direct to Offer Faster Payments
Astra Taps Visa Direct to Offer Faster Payments
August 09, 2022  |  Faster Payments

Money movement automation platform Astra is using Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time payments service. The move allows San Francisco-based Astra to offer fast payments “to millions...

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Real-Time Payments Adoption: Separating Fact From Fiction at Midmarket Companies
Real-Time Payments Adoption: Separating Fact From Fiction at Midmarket Companies
August 09, 2022  |  Faster Payments

Middle-market companies (those with sales from $20 million to $1 billion) have been relatively slow to adopt real-time payment (RTP) technologies, even though they recognize...

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Western Union Expands Integration With Visa Direct
Western Union Expands Integration With Visa Direct
August 09, 2022  |  Partnerships

Western Union is expanding its integration with Visa’s real-time money movement network Visa Direct to enable Western Union customers in the U.S. to send funds...

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Same-Day ACH Payments Double in Q2
Same-Day ACH Payments Double in Q2
August 04, 2022  |  Digital Payments

The ACH Network moved 7.5 billion payments totaling nearly $20 trillion value during the second quarter, according to an announcement from Nacha, the industry group...

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How Far and Fast Payments Have Come
How Far and Fast Payments Have Come
August 03, 2022  |  Payment Methods

“Once you’ve been bitten by the payments bug, it’s an incurable disease. It never goes away.” Steve Ledford, retiring as senior vice president, product and...

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TCH Asks CFPB to Define Larger Participants in Aggregation Services Market
TCH Asks CFPB to Define Larger Participants in Aggregation Services Market
August 02, 2022  |  CFPB

The Clearing House has petitioned the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to make new rules around aggregation services, or third-party companies dealing with peoples’ financial...

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The Clearing House Names Rusiru Gunasena to Oversee RTP
The Clearing House Names Rusiru Gunasena to Oversee RTP
August 02, 2022  |  Personnel

The Clearing House (TCH) has named 20-year payments industry veteran Rusiru Gunasena to oversee its real-time payments (RTP) network. According to a Tuesday (Aug. 2)...

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Global Mass Payouts Get an Accounting and Finance Makeover
Global Mass Payouts Get an Accounting and Finance Makeover
July 26, 2022  |  Cross-border Payments

For enterprises, going cross-border means building out a network of suppliers and vendors, all in a bid to tap into new consumer bases. Nowadays, more...

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Real-Time Payments, APIs and Infrastructure Unlock New Consumer Use Cases
Real-Time Payments, APIs and Infrastructure Unlock New Consumer Use Cases
July 22, 2022  |  API

Historically, developers who wanted to build on top of the existing payments infrastructure have struggled to access the data needed to build real-time, engaging experiences....

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