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Citi On The Art And Science Of Detecting B2B Outlier Payments

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Kohli noted that, in the B2B realm, there is a recognition among payment professionals that the increased velocity of payments — especially what might be termed as “payments with finality” that come across real-time rails, where transactions are often irrevocable — means risk is on the rise.

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Real-Time Payments Successfully Gets Through Its First Test Drive

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The first transaction, in addition to moving funds, also carried data in an invoice-like fashion to accompany requests for payments which are irrevocable. All in all, the transfer took three seconds — as opposed to the hours or days more typically associated with an ACH transfer. The upgrade to the system also allows the U.S.

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Mastercard: Collaboration Is Key To Scaling Real-Time Payments

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According to Mastercard Executive Vice President of New Payment Flows Ronald Shultz, the survey results are promising for the real-time B2B payments landscape. It’s not speed that’s driving corporates’ real-time payment roadmaps, however – convenience and data availability are at the top of their list of benefits.

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FPC 2022 Fall Member Meeting

Faster Payments Council

12:30pm-1:10pmCT: Panel Session – Efficiency and B2B Payment Modernization (Minneapolis Ballroom Salon AB) With the FedNowSM service coming next year, there's no time like the present to prepare for and innovate on instant B2B payments improvements.

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Visa Buys Rambus Payments To Tokenize Any Transaction On Any Network

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There is a palpable nervousness on the part of senders and receivers about fraud wrought across nascent real-time rails, since payments are irrevocable. After all, Visa’s issuer clients move money from account to account, spanning P2P and B2B transactions, and those transactions are, as of yet, untokenized. Down The Road.

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Being Accountable: Virtual Cards Encourage Spend, Eliminate Hidden AP Costs

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As Nick Reid, director of B2B partner development at Conferma , said in an interview with PYMNTS, virtual cards can help eliminate those hidden costs. As is common in B2B, buyers want to hang on to cash as long as they can; suppliers want to get paid as quickly as possible.

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Ready Or Not, Faster Payments Will Impact Corporate Operations

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The obvious assumption in the business-to-business (B2B) landscape is that faster payments are not only unnecessary, but unwanted, as corporates don’t necessarily need to move money immediately. Adoption and implementation will rely significantly on market demand.