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Offline settlements with a digital pound: Lessons from the BoE’s report

The Payments Association

Jerome Ajdenbaum CEO Finality, settlement, and device-based transfers The project assessed whether it was feasible to enable payments between parties who had no access to the CBDC network at the time of transaction, a scenario often triggered by poor connectivity or service outages. For industry leaders, this is a crucial moment to engage.

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FPC 2022 Fall Member Meeting

Faster Payments Council

Join this session to learn more about exchange framework assessments and pilot programs backed by the Business Payments Coalition (BPC), Federal Reserve and industry.

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Deep Dive: The Benefits And Challenges Of Real-Time Push Payments

PYMNTS

That consideration includes assessing the potential benefits and risks that come with the two fundamental types of bank payments: push and pull transactions. Instant transactions require that money move immediately and irrevocably, and TCH states that supporting push payments only reduces fraud risks.

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Ready Or Not, Faster Payments Will Impact Corporate Operations

PYMNTS

Since these transactions are irrevocable, pre-transaction authorization and Know Your Customer (KYC) checks are even more essential in the risk mitigation process. The Center for Payments wants to help FIs and corporates understand where those opportunities exist, and assess whether investments in those opportunities would be profitable.

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Deep Dive: How Gift Cards Become Grift Cards For QSRs

PYMNTS

Device risk assessment programs can determine whether these value checks are coming from a small number of devices, indicating that hackers could be using botnets to further their schemes. QSRs must, therefore, be proactive in their prevention methods, or the presence of fraud could irrevocably taint the lucrative gift card market.

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How FedNow will Disrupt Vendor Payments

Nanonets

As transactions are irrevocable, the need for vendor confirmation is eliminated, simplifying and hastening the reconciliation process within your system. As we explore this, it becomes evident that assessing what key performance indicators (KPIs) would be affected is essential.

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Retail Payments Fraud: How Consumers and Banks Can Fight Back

FICO

Increasingly, the scams involve cryptocurrencies; The New York Times also recently investigating crypto romance scams in which victims are lured into paying criminals with fraudulent, and irrevocable, transfers into digital wallets. Take our Retail Banking Payments Fraud Strategy Self-Assessment to evaluate your current initiatives.