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Fiserv On Why 2020 Is ‘The Year Of P2P’

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The conversation came against a backdrop where, at the end of February, Fiserv said that nearly 600 banks and credit unions (CUs) have joined the turnkey service from Zelle to enable person-to-person (P2P) payment capabilities, and that the number of participants accessing the network via Fiserv has increased ten-fold in 2019 from 2018.

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African FinTech Chipper Cash Gets $6M To Enter New Markets

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Chipper Cash, which went live in 2018, raised $2.4 In addition to its no-fee P2P service, the company also offers a product for merchants called Chipper Checkout, which is a fee-based C2B product that helps to generate revenue. Southern Africa is an area we’re looking to expand to in 2020,” he said.

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African FinTech Payment Startup Chipper Cash Woos Investors, Including Joe Montana

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The company went live in October of 2018, and it’s a no-fee, P2P cross-border startup. The company is also launching a merchant-facing C2B mobile payments app called Chipper Checkout, which will be a paid app. African FinTech payment startup Chipper Cash has attracted some high-profile investors and raised $2.4

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TRENDING: Inside Hong Kong’s New Faster Payment System

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The network processed $28 billion in payments during Q2 2018 and can expect that traffic to rise as it adds new participants. Such was the case in Hong Kong, where the existing RTGS system was only serving high-value interbank transactions, leaving peer-to-peer (P2P) and consumer-to-business (C2B) payments to languish.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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It’s been reported that TCH had 36 banks on board RTP at the end of 2018, and expects that number to reach 1,000 by the end of Q1 2019 – about two weeks from today. NACHA reported that in Q4 2018, SDA volume hit 51.3 No date has been given for that process. TCH is the association of the 25 largest banks in the U.S.,

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Cross-Border Payments Need More Than Bank-FinTech Collaboration

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When PYMNTS asked cross-border payments experts at the end of last year what they thought the driving trend would be for the industry in 2018, the consensus was all about collaboration , particularly between banks and FinTech firms. percent (compared to 6 percent for peer-to-peer [P2P] payments).