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Deep Dive: Making Instant Payment Schemes Universal And Interoperable

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Existing payment networks such as ACH, The Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) and SWIFT continue to see strong use, which is creating further reluctance among private parties to switch. Banks, then, need to offer these other payments methods and standards, or else risk losing their corporate clients to competitors.

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Citizens Bank’s Corporate Real-Time Payments Play

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Citizens plans to provide greater payments speed to its clients this year by using the RTP rail developed by The Clearing House (TCH). The FI, one of TCH’s owner banks, aims to offer its customers real-time payments during the first half of 2019, and give them the ability in later months to send them. . as an example.

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Past Lessons May Prove Invaluable For US Real-Time Payments Rollout

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Icon Solutions , which provides FIs with technology and consulting to help get their real-time payments capabilities up and running, recently announced that it is working with The Clearing House (TCH), offering TCH its Instant Payments Framework. Of course, real-time ACH payments and card payments are hardly birds of a feather.

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Clearing Up The Case For ISO 20022

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This “standard for standards” is designed to set the tone for a global financial industry message scheme, but unfortunately it is often misunderstood. The standard isn’t related to any one organization or segment, it was created by the International Organization for Standardization for many global transactions.

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NEW REPORT: Minding Faster Payments Global Gaps

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First, BNY Mellon recently announced that it became the first bank to enable Request for Payment messages using The Clearing House’s (TCH) Real-Time Payments (RTP) network. Faster Payments Scheme will see the implementation of the international messaging standard known as ISO20022. Several U.S. s payment systems.