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Top News In Payments: TCH Increases RTP Threshold; Verizon Teams With Synchrony For Card

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In today’s top news, The Clearing House (TCH) is increasing the value limit for general transactions on the TCH-operated real-time payments (RTP) network, Verizon is working with financial firm Synchrony to put out its own consumer card and the United States is moving to get tough on the sale of counterfeit merchandise through eCommerce.

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Who Will Lead The US To Real-Time Ubiquity By 2020?

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It’s expected that more than 56 real-time payment rails will be live by 2020, and the U.S. Since The Clearing House (TCH) launched Real-Time Payments (RTP) in 2017, the system has yet to reach ubiquity in 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.,

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Deep Dive: How Real-Time Payments Can Help Meet B2B, P2P Expectations

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Consumers have meanwhile transitioned even more toward payment solutions that allow them to send or receive money in real time, with P2P apps like Zelle and Venmo reporting jumps in user activity during the first half of 2020. One study by TCH observed that 56 percent of checking account holders in the U.S. percent during Q3 2020.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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Such as how the Fed plans get a critical mass of participants on board, which The Clearing House (TCH) is struggling to do now. FedNow is positioned as a competitor to the private systems, with TCH as its only real-time domestic account-to-account competitor, but it also competes with cards and ACH. Slowing Innovation.

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Deep Dive: Weighing The Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Proposal

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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. bank account would be able to securely receive real-time payments by 2020. . TCH, which is co-owned by 25 banks, launched Real-Time Payments (RTP) in November 2017. State of U.S.

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Faster Payment Becomes A Federal Case

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In the March 2020 PYMNTS Faster Payments Tracker , the antagonists in this particular drama are the Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) and The Clearing House (TCH), whose ACH wire transfer tech was the industry standard until FinTech interlopers began repurposing payments rails with tons of venture capital.

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Connected Devices, Instant Payments, Digital Shift Top This Week’s News

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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha And Circle See The Future Of Faster, Real-Time Payments Rails . NEW DATA: How We Will Pay 2020: With Connected Devices, At Home And During The Week. Trackers and Reports.