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Mastercard: Collaboration Is Key To Scaling Real-Time Payments

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With speed being the most obvious value proposition of real-time payments capabilities, it’s not difficult to imagine that corporate payers would be eager to embrace faster payments functionality in their accounts payable (AP) departments. Tackling Barriers, Both Real and Perceived.

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How Fraud Changes in the World of Real-Time Payments

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In recent months, many countries have rolled out real-time payments schemes. In the USA, The Clearing House launched their Faster Payments scheme in November 2017, the same month that the Eurozone got SEPC CT Inst – a cross-border, real-time payments scheme.

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Real-Time Payments Successfully Gets Through Its First Test Drive

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was moved between accounts at two different banks (there was only one customer with two bank accounts) via RTP, the name for a new “Real-Time Payments” system set up by The Clearing House. The system sees some business actually attaching paper checks to account files just so they can match payment with bills.

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Instant Payments Mean Real-Time Payments Fraud

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In the past year, three major economies — the Eurozone, the USA and Australia — have gone live with real-time payments schemes, Canada will follow in 2019 and many other countries are on the road to implementing real-time schemes. Real-Time Payments Equal Real-Time Crime.

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The State Of Faster Payments: ‘Early Innings’

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The “state” of — well, anything — refers to its condition, the attributes and even the state of “mind” that denotes where we are at any given time on an endeavor. Might the state of faster payments be described as “conflicted?”. Even if you take faster payments out of the equation, there are a number of rails,” he said.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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There’s a canary in the faster payments coalmine. That was the day that an advocacy group, Financial Innovation Now (FIN), submitted a public comment letter to the Fed in response to its proposal to create and operate a real-time payments system in the U.S. It flew in on Dec. Here’s where the canary flew in.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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It’s also not why the Fed decided to enter the real-time payments fray. The Real-Time Payday Reality. For the dwindling numbers of people who still receive a physical paycheck, new applications let workers take a picture of that check and get instant, irrevocable access to the funds for a modest fee.