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Happy First Birthday FedNow: But is This a Cause For Celebration?

The Fintech Times

Both offer similar services, but FedNow participants can transfer funds from their Federal Reserve master account, which means they have an extra pool of resources for liquidity management. “Banks have a difficult choice between TCH’s RTP network and the new kid on the block, FedNow.

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The Future Of Payments Beyond The Pandemic

PYMNTS

He said community banks and credit unions (CUs) have tended be on the trailing edge when it comes to digital. Edwards termed real-time payments “an ACH killer … it’s moving today’s batch process of banks exchanging files with each other to a Federal Reserve centric master account to an ‘instant’ way for banks to do it.”.

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President Trump issues Executive Order on digital assets

The Payments Association

the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), or the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)) are not included in the Working Group, especially given the allegations of an ‘Operation Choke Point 2.0.,’