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Pay.UK Expands Confirmation of Payee to Meet Growth of Faster Payments Transactions in the UK

The Fintech Times

Pay.UK , the independent, not-for-profit operator of the UK’s national retail payments system, is expanding ‘Confirmation of Payee’, significantly bolstering protection for UK consumers against Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud and misdirected payments. billion checks as of September 2024 and conducting over 2.1

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Banks can't be counted on to lead faster payments

Payments Source

Banks don't compete with each other enough to effectively lead the move to faster payments in the U.S., argues CMSPI's Mark Horwedel.

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Serving Mobile P2P Payments To The Gen X Crowd

PYMNTS

The Septem ber Faster Payments Tracker explores new initiatives aimed at better serving SMBs’ payment needs as well as other key developments in the space. Around the Faster Payments World. The Nigerian branch of pan-African banking group Ecobank has been working to serve SMBs with a faster payment system.

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What Hong Kong’s New Faster Payment System Means

PYMNTS

Faster payments solutions must meet a variety of demands. Small retailers want to keep their cash flow moving by receiving consumer payments quickly, while large corporations need improved data and visibility to ensure their B2B transactions arrive on schedule. Changing Retail and Insurance. per transaction.

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Faster Payments And The Fed, Two Years On

PYMNTS

The year 2020 looms large in the payments realm, marked off by the Federal Reserve as the year faster payments are to be truly commonplace, available to U.S. Over the course of the next nine to 12 months, the Fed will be conducting a formal assessment of real-time settlement needs, with a focus on a retail payments environment.

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Pay.UK Strengthens Executive Leadership Team with COO Appointment

Fintech Finance

Pay.UK , the independent, not-for-profit operator of the UK’s national retail payments systems, including Faster Payments, Bacs and Direct Debit, has announced the appointment of David Morris to the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Morris previously held the role of Chief Technology Officer at Pay.UK

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OBL Reveals UK Open Banking Adoption for Consumers Reaches Same Level as Small Business Adoption

The Fintech Times

Adoption in payments Painting the clearest picture yet of the techs real-world impact, the report highlights that 31 million open banking payments were made in March this year alone, with usage expanding into sectors such as travel and e-commerce, as well as credit card payments and saving account deposits.