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Why the U.S. has reached a real-time tipping point

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has reached a real-time tipping point Community Your feed Latest expert opinions Groups Join the Community 23,263 Expert opinions 43,814 Total members 393 New members (last 30 days) 186 New opinions (last 30 days) 29,062 Total comments Join Sign in Why the U.S. Same day Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments rose 19.1%

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Why Payment Speed Alone Won't Win the Real-Time Race

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Headlines trumpet the arrival of instant payments, real-time rails, and millisecond processing times as if velocity were the sole measure of progress. Yet this singular focus on speed misses a fundamental truth: enterprises dont just want faster payments—they want smarter, more reliable, and more strategic payment systems.

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Same Day ACH: Impacts At The Intersections

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23, the industry welcomed the rollout of ubiquitous faster payments to every consumer and business in the U.S. NACHA’s launch of Same Day ACH ushered in three settlement windows, enabling ACH payments to be received same day. via all banks and credit unions.

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Breaking Down The Faster Payments Construct

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In just a matter of days, the payments industry will see a significant — and ubiquitous — change in the way payments are sent and received. Same Day ACH will create a new option for faster payments for all the banks and credit unions across the U.S. What’s Under The Faster Payments Umbrella?

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Forty Is The New Faster (Payments)

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Forty is the new fasterpayments, that is. More than 40 years after its debut, the Automated Clearing House Network becomes the first payments system in the country to offer ubiquitous faster payments to every consumer and business in the U.S. is now capable of receiving and enabling this same-day capability.

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Coming Soon: Same Day ACH Phase 2 – Debits

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Hollywood metaphor (almost) aside, there’s another industry near and dear to the Faster Payments Tracker ’s heart, and it’s also producing sequels these days. payment system has embarked on the financial equivalent of a film trilogy with its Same Day ACH initiative, an initiative which will bring big changes to the ACH Network.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Take two announcements from just last week, related to the evolution of faster payments in the U.S. First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day. A Couple of Important Dots.