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Why Payment Speed Alone Won't Win the Real-Time Race

Finextra

Headlines trumpet the arrival of instant payments, real-time rails, and millisecond processing times as if velocity were the sole measure of progress. Yet this singular focus on speed misses a fundamental truth: enterprises dont just want faster payments—they want smarter, more reliable, and more strategic payment systems.

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Breaking Down The Faster Payments Construct

PYMNTS

In just a matter of days, the payments industry will see a significant — and ubiquitous — change in the way payments are sent and received. Same Day ACH will create a new option for faster payments for all the banks and credit unions across the U.S. What’s Under The Faster Payments Umbrella?

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Securing Faster Payments: Modernizing Account Validation

Payments Dive

In 2018 alone, ACH network volume reached nearly 23 billion payments –70 payments per person in the U.S. In the 12 months ending February 2019, payment volume across the ACH network increased 7.2%, reaching over 100 million ACH payments per banking day, a first for the ACH network.

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The Clearing House’s ACH Network Continues Multiyear Growth Trend

Fintech Finance

Transaction volume on the EPN ® system, the ACH network operated by The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C., in 2024, continuing the trend of yearly ACH volume and value growth. ACH commercial volume last year. per year, as businesses and consumers continued to embrace electronic payments.

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Faster Payments Finds Its Future

PYMNTS

Less than two months after its implementation, Same Day ACH, the ubiquitous faster payments initiative for the payments industry in the United States, is showing a significant impact on the market, but it still has plenty to learn from those across the pond. still has faster payment lessons to learn.

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Forty Is The New Faster (Payments)

PYMNTS

Forty is the new fasterpayments, that is. More than 40 years after its debut, the Automated Clearing House Network becomes the first payments system in the country to offer ubiquitous faster payments to every consumer and business in the U.S. via all banks and credit unions. Today (Sept.

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ACH Network Kicks Off 2025 with Record Growth

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

From a Press Release dated April 23, 2025, Reston, Virginia The ACH Network reported significant growth in both standard and Same Day ACH transactions during the first quarter of 2025. This demonstrates continued momentum in electronic payments, with significantly rapid growth in Same Day ACH.