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SWIFT Signals Further Openness To Blockchain?

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The retail payments solution is based on the Universal Payments Framework, and boosts the number of self-service options for Capitec as it expands its corporate banking efforts. “We We anticipate significant growth in transaction volume over the next 10 years, as a variety of innovative digital [payment] products are launched.

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Walmart Taps Fiserv to Offer Pay by Bank

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Launched in 2014, Fiserv’s NOW Network aims to reach as many banks as possible to provide consumers and businesses the ability to send, receive, and access funds immediately while supporting credit push payments. Leveraging Fiserv to power real time payments is an important move for Walmart as it enters the pay-by-bank game.

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What’s Fast And Slow And Read All Over?

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For years, the Fed’s payments folks have been wracking their brains to figure out a way to remain relevant in a digital payments world in which it was becoming increasingly less so. The Fed didn’t see the need for people to conduct commerce on the web and create digital payments schemes that would allow them to do that.

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