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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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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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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Connecting these two dots suggests a few important things that, for banks and card networks, might be the 2020 hindsight that could have come in handy had they stopped to look backwards a few years ago: That the Fed has much more than a passing interest in how faster payments are run in the U.S. the other being the Fed.

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Three Years On, Open Banking’s Progress And Roadmap Ahead

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API call volume, according to the data, have increased from 66.8 million in 2018 to roughly 6 billion in 2020. Cumulative call volumes have reached more than 7 billion, while open banking payments have risen to more than four million transactions in 2020, up significantly from 320,000 in 2018. million U.K.

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Real-Time Payments Have Numerous Real-World Applications

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According to an earlier Faster Payments Tracker , it was projected that more than 56 real-time payment rails will be live by 2020. Earlier this month, payment company PayFi and The Clearing House (TCH) partnered to bring real-time payments technologies to the community banks. The demand for faster payments is strong in the U.S.,

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Deep Dive: Instant Payments Confront Long Path To Ubiquity

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Payments made with cash and checks are dropping in volume — the use of cash alone declined 40 percent over the past five years in Canada. Instant payments started 2020 on a high note, however, with the adoption of real-time payments and other speedy disbursement methods increasing over the past few years.