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Real-Time Payments Are Soaring In The U.S.

Tom Groenfeldt

was slow getting to real-time payments , but the businesses and individuals are taking them up in a big way, using primarily the private sector RTP rails from The Clearing House (TCH). TCH which operates the largest instant payments system in the United States said today that it averages 1.18 getty The U.S.

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The Clearing House Sees Growth In Its Real-Time Payments (RTP)

Tom Groenfeldt

In early February The Clearing House (TCH) announced its first $10 million instant payment over the RTP network which had just raised its maximum payment from $1 million to $10 million. billion in mid-March, said Gregory MacSweeney, spokesman for TCH. Even so, the U.S million in January to $2.8

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FedNow overtakes TCH in adoption

Bank Automation

Nearly 600 financial institutions have joined the government’s payment network since it went live July 20, 2023, Allison Baller, vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, […]

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FedNow’s Montgomery: Gearing Up For 2023-24 — And Instant Payments Competition

PYMNTS

He said there are going to be some institutions that will want to connect with both instant payment services — FedNow and The Clearing House (TCH)’s real-time payments ( RTP ) network — in a desire to ensure resiliency and redundancy to support outages in one system to the other, if they were to occur. The Timeframe .

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Mastercard and The Clearing House deepen their partnership to zero in on new instant payments applications 

Tearsheet

Mastercard recently expanded collaboration with The Clearing House (TCH), with the shared goal of propelling the adoption of instant payments. Mastercard’s collaboration with TCH dates back to 2017 when TCH introduced the RTP network, with Mastercard as the exclusive software provider for the network.

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The Clearing House On The Race for Real-Time Payments In The US

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But with a 2023-24 timeframe to implementation, the Fed’s efforts will take a while to cross the Rubicon from concept to reality. Waterhouse said that in terms of TCH’s own initiatives in getting banks on board the ongoing effort to make RTP ubiquitous across the entirety of the U.S. What’s Next.

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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.