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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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But the transition is one that must consider, and maybe even embrace, several emerging options and payment rails in a bid to move data and money more quickly across borders, and move, decisively, away from paper checks. Real time and the ACH network can actually work together to displace paper checks.” Moving Beyond ACH .

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The Clearing House On The Race for Real-Time Payments In The US

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As has been widely reported, millions of Americans had to wait weeks and months for paper checks to arrive. Learning from past mistakes will be important, he said, considering that there were roughly 120 million ACH, 36 million checks and about 4 million debit cards issued in the first funding round. What’s Next.

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TCH’s Waterhouse: Real-Time Payments’ 2021 Focus Is On Smarter, Safer

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According to Russ Waterhouse , executive vice president of Product Development and Strategy at The Clearing House (TCH), the surge in digitization brought on by the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the evolution of a range of RTP (Real-Time Payments) network advancements, including instant payroll, merchant settlements and tokenization.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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Senator Elizabeth Warren asks in a campaign ad, ignoring the fact that 93 percent of working Americans have their checks directly deposited into their bank accounts – ready for use on payday – using the ACH network. For most people, it has been a long time since they received a paper check that had to be deposited at the bank.

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Real-Time Payments Steps Up To Fulfill Demand For Faster Funds

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The payments ecosystem now prizes quickness above all things in a time of cash flow shortages, where each paper check takes an eternity — assuming it arrives at all. Clearly, paper checks aren’t cutting it anymore. To paraphrase the movie “Top Gun” … “We feel the need … the need for speed.” We’ve evolved.

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Outage Persists For WEX Fleet Fuel Cards

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The WEX cards affected include TCH, T-Check, Fleet One and EFS. Truckers were left with unfilled gas tanks nationwide after an outage to WEX commercial fleet fuel cards, reports indicated on Thursday (Feb.

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Deep Dive: How The Pandemic Is Giving Treasurers An Instant Payments Jolt

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Numerous businesses — especially small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) — still utilize paper checks for many of their B2B payments, and the method’s frictions have deepened in recent months. Interest in the Real-Time Payments (RTP) system from The Clearing House (TCH) is growing in the U.S., Breaking Away From Checks .