The Payments Association

APRIL 8, 2025

Participants Emerging trends in merchant payments: The next 12 months The roundtable began with an exploration of emerging payment trends set to shape the industry. Sophie Chandler highlighted how the adoption of alternative payment methods is gaining momentum.

Fraud Prevention

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said in a speech this week that a digital dollar could conceivably be a form of money transfer that would enable the Fed to disburse money to all individuals in America. Her speech, entitled “Payment and the Pandemic,” included a section on digital currencies.

Fed

PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

First to test the infrastructure will be Siam Cement Public Company, which will adopt the technology for its procurement and supplier payments operations. Emerging payment rails and digital currencies often tout security as a key value-added differentiator over legacy payment rails.

Federal Reserve

PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

But reports also noted that the acceleration of check payments could have significant impact for companies and small businesses that use paper checks to pay vendors or employees. There’s a lot to learn to do it the first time around when embracing faster payments,” he said, “and this slows people down.”.

FedNow

Faster Payments Council

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

We will delve into the operational considerations that FIs need to navigate while embracing two instant payment networks. Newer infrastructure platforms are being built using blockchain / distributed ledger technology, posed to remediate the functional inefficiencies of legacy systems across product lines.

FPC

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

launched its Faster Payments scheme, after the regulator said the banks had to comply, but has amped up ever since, as regulators in a few other countries have followed in the U.K.’s who today already have access to an ubiquitous faster payments scheme called same-day ACH. It may have started in 2007 when the U.K. s footsteps.

B2B

Clearly Payments

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Regulatory Organizations in The USA Federal Reserve System: The Federal Reserve , often referred to as the Fed, plays a central role in overseeing the nation’s payment systems. It formulates policies, provides services, and conducts research to promote the safety, efficiency, and accessibility of payment systems.

Regulations