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MARCH 28, 2025

Banking & Bank Technology Conference Calendar 2025 Event Location Start Attendees* Speakers* Began Transact by ETA Las Vegas 2-4 Apr 3,000 150 1990 Financial Brand Forum Las Vegas 14-16 Apr 2,500 2014 Money 20/20 Asia Bangkok 22-24 Apr 3,000 200 2018 Smarter Faster Payments by NACHA New Orleans 27-30 Apr 2,000 1974 FinovateSpring San Diego 7-9 (..)

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Faster Payments Council

AUGUST 23, 2024

Faster Payments Council have worked together to introduce the Accredited Faster Payments Professional Program (AFPP). Attendees will come away with an understanding of the benefits of becoming an AFPP, continuing education requirements, and where to acquire training and education for the exam. Nacha and the U.S.

AFPP

PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

The rise of faster payment systems has become a global phenomenon. In the past few years, several global markets have invested resources into developing payment systems and infrastructure that enables funds to be delivered in real-time and that operate on a 24/7 cycle.

Faster Payments

Faster Payments Council

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Collaboration with Glenbrook Partners Uncovers Key Industry Views on Faster Payments Advancements; Need for Ubiquity, Interoperability, Strong Dispute Resolution The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), in partnership with Glenbrook, today released results from the Faster Payments Barometer. 18 – Oct.

Faster Payments

Faster Payments Council

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Faster Payments Council (FPC), in partnership with Glenbrook Partners, today released results from the 3rd annual Faster Payments Barometer. The FPC conducted the latest survey of payments system stakeholders to gauge progress and perceptions around faster payments, trends, use cases, and challenges in the United States.

Faster Payments

Fintech Finance

JULY 12, 2024

The news builds on GoCardless’ partner strategy to acquire customers at scale. The fintech currently works with a roster of more than 350 partners, allowing businesses to seamlessly integrate GoCardless into the software they already use so they can manage their payment and other business activities in one place.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

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?

Faster Payments

Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Stripe and JPMorgan Chase are firing rapid shots in their battle to win businesses, offering faster payments as the centerpiece of their offerings.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Take two announcements from just last week, related to the evolution of faster payments in the U.S. First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day. The Fed’s Hat and the Faster Payments Ring.

Faster Payments

Payments Source

APRIL 22, 2016

MasterCard will vault itself deep into the faster payments landscape and position itself better to compete with Visa in the U.K. if a £1 billion acquisition of VocaLink unfolds as reported on a U.K. news site.

Faster Payments

Payments Source

JULY 20, 2017

Same-day Automated Clearing House transactions exist, in part, as a first step in the faster payments initiatives taking place in the U.S. But are they lucrative enough for acquirers to add to their portfolio?

Acquirers

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Visa has inked an agreement to acquire YellowPepper , which works with startups in the Caribbean and Latin America, according to an emailed press release. The acquisition builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the company back then.

Acquirers

Payments Source

MAY 26, 2016

Consumers, banks and merchants all want faster payments, but new technology only seems to be making the process slower.

Faster Payments

Payments Source

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Payveris’ Jeff Weikert recently took the position that faster payments are more of an opportunity than a threat to financial institutions’ customer relationships. I agree, and see faster payments as not only an opportunity, but a responsibility to our customers and all consumers in the U.S.

Faster Payments

Fintech Finance

MAY 20, 2025

The deployment is fully enabled for all major card types, mobile wallets, Alipay+, AMEX, and Discover/Diners, and is underpinned by Planet’s acquiring services, offering a complete, end-to-end payment and POS solution. “It’s a perfect example of how our connected payments solutions drive real business outcomes.”

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Faster payments are quickening the pace of billion dollar acquisitions in the payments space. billion USD) to buy Nets, a Denmark based payments platform. Mastercard said Tuesday (Aug. 7) that it would spend 2.9 billion Euros, ($3.2

Visa

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

FLEETCOR , which works in global business payments, announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire cross-border payment firm Associated Foreign Exchange (AFEX) to help boost its own payments network, a press release says.

Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

’s Faster Payments system has caused a backlog of transactions still waiting to clear hours later, according to BBC reports from Monday (July 9). The NPSO only recently acquired control of the Faster Payments scheme, as the government consolidates the nation’s payments systems under one roof.

Faster Payments

Payments Source

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In a world that is moving faster than ever before, consumers complete transactions at the register with a simple tap of a phone and transfer money across accounts in seconds.

Faster Payments

Payments Source

JUNE 6, 2016

Compared to the United States, other geographies have seemingly had an easier task to bring real time payments to market – simply based on their size.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

There is a similar shift occurring in another area of financial services, says Stuart Hall from PayRun.io, which was recently acquired by U.K.-based FinTechs , on the other hand, have leapfrogged over legacy technologies to form digital-native companies. based Payescape. “In the same way, that’s started to happen in payroll.”

Payroll

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

s Faster Payments Scheme launched in 2008. It was the country’s first new payment system in two decades, and just one-third of U.K. PYMNTS recently caught up with Marion King, director of payments for NatWest , about what Faster Payments has meant for the bank and how its use may develop in the future.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Digital banking, is fully customizable, tied to, for example, whether the eCommerce firm will receive payments from acquiring banks or from payment services providers — or whether they will be paid directly from customers. Discussing flexibility, she said businesses can get access, through virtual IBAN, to many payment types.

Facilitators

Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To further Mastercard’s vision of bringing immediacy to card payments, the company today announced that South Africa will be the first market in the world to benefit from the security and speed of immediate Mastercard card payments. As a key global priority, real-time card payments are central to Mastercard’s strategy.

Visa

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

When The Clearing House (TCH), the payments firm owned by commercial banks, along with global software and services provider FIS, recently submitted their proposal to the Fed’s Faster Payments Task Force in order to evaluate their real-time payments system proposal, it signified a milestone along the path toward real-time payments.

Faster Payments

Payments Source

APRIL 4, 2016

Instant electronic payments are a sine qua non of modern life. In contrast, payments between bank accounts generally aren't instant. Real-time card-authorization systems were implemented in the mid-seventies and, in an era of mobile ubiquity, enable commerce anywhere, anytime.

Faster Payments

Payments Source

APRIL 10, 2016

for an instant payment. A recent article in American Banker suggests that U.S. Bank is beginning to charge consumers $6.95

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Rover180 has acquired Vemity , an Indiana-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) automation and machine learning. The company will now use Vemity’s technology to cut costs related to invoicing and accelerated payments for the transportation industry.

AI

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Today in PYMNTS data, finance professionals are using artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, payment speeds have varying impacts on different-sized businesses, Snap shares officially snapped their losing streak, faster payment schemes are on the rise worldwide and crowdfunding platform fees could soon be a thing of the past.

Faster Payments

The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Payments giant Mastercard has revealed that South Africa is becoming the first market to benefit from the security and speed of real-time card payments. Mastercard plans to enable acquiring banks in South Africa to process real-time card payments , through a variety of strategic partnerships and enhancements to its network.

Visa

Payments Source

JUNE 22, 2016

Early Warning's clearXchange is starting to show the bank-led network's potential to catalyze faster processing, and now the enterprise is also executing on its broader goal to power other products beyond person-to-person transfers.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Chinese B2B eCommerce platform DHgate.com is upgrading its payments infrastructure to promote faster payments for businesses transacting on the site. 2) said DHgate.com revealed plans to upgrade its platform payment infrastructure to ensure that every transaction will take six seconds or less. Reports Friday (Dec.

B2B

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2020

PayPal has dropped its bid to acquire bitcoin wallet purveyor BitGo but remains interested in investing in the cryptocurrency space, Fortune reported. I think ultimately, the digital dollar is going to become a thing, and that is going to allow for better, cheaper, faster payments.

PayPal

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Same Day ACH is now a reality and, with much fanfare, represents the first ubiquitous faster payments initiative in the United States without an attendant regulatory mandate. But as Karen Webster noted in the latest installment of Topic TBD, even as faster payments takes a step closer to reality in the U.S.,

Same Day ACH

Payments Source

APRIL 12, 2016

Citing growing social and economic pressure to speed processing, the European Payments Council wants to enable real-time payments between the 34 countries in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Insurance-leaning digital payments solutions vendor One Inc has been acquired by growth-oriented private equity firm Great Hill Partners , according to a release on Wednesday (Feb. One Inc said that its seen growth of payments volume at 77 percent YOY.

Acquirers

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The HSBC Open Payments application will let businesses connect their checkout pages with the customers' online apps or app-based mobile platform. Then the purchaser is given a request for pre-populated payments, and upon authorization, an "instant and irrevocable credit" is applied to the seller's account. 25 statement.

Irrevocability