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

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These efforts include TCH’s efforts to connect financial institutions’ (FIs’) core banking systems to the company’s Real-Time Payments (RTP) network, along with what card networks and FinTechs are doing to enable real-time push payments to receiver bank accounts. Achieving ubiquity across the 12,000 or so FIs in the U.S.

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TCH’s Waterhouse: Real-Time Payments’ 2021 Focus Is On Smarter, Safer

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Nearly a year of trial-by-fire, pandemic-era learning within the payments business has not only provided some great lessons but has also set the stage for some major advances in 2021 that have been in the cards for years. That “something” has a lot to do with account tokenization, which has a lot going for it as an anti-fraud tool.

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Citizens Bank’s Corporate Real-Time Payments Play

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“We might be at a tipping point in the market, [in which] the market just demands faster payments,” said Matt Richardson, head of product solutions at Citizens Bank. . Citizens plans to provide greater payments speed to its clients this year by using the RTP rail developed by The Clearing House (TCH).

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P2P Payments Set The Stage For B2B RTP

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In recent months, though, real-time payments (RTP) have garnered more interest and no shortage of headlines in the U.S. The Clearing House [TCH] launched its own RTP network at the end of 2017.). These ‘conversational payments’ are traceable conversations for both parties, aiding in increased [accounts receivable] reconcilement.

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Deep Dive: Billing And The Use Of Real-Time Payments

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When The Clearing House (TCH) unveiled the Real-Time Payments (RTP) system in 2017, it propelled swifter payments and brought about the next generation of fund transfers. It wasn’t the first to roll out such a system, but it was the first “major payments upgrade” in the U.S. in approximately four decades. .