PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Less than two months after its implementation, Same Day ACH, the ubiquitous faster payments initiative for the payments industry in the United States, is showing a significant impact on the market, but it still has plenty to learn from those across the pond. still has faster payment lessons to learn.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

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.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

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.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Phase One of Same Day ACH will officially launch in the U.S. It was then that NACHA proposed the shift to settling three times a day, ve days per week, to give consumers and businesses access to more efficient transactions. Final steps toward Faster Payments. And get something done they did.

Same Day ACH

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

Same Day ACH has been a focus for banks since it was proposed in early 2014. Phase 1 of the Faster Payments initiative launches on Sept. will be able to accept Same Day payments, with the option to originate them. What’s happening in the world of Faster Payments.

Same Day ACH

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This rapid expansion is fueling predictions that the global real-time payments market will rise from a value of $6.8 Numerous payments schemes have rolled out since the U.K. launched its own Faster Payments Service in 2008. bank account would be able to securely receive real-time payments by 2020. . Faster Rails.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Same Day ACH is now a reality and, with much fanfare, represents the first ubiquitous faster payments initiative in the United States without an attendant regulatory mandate. But as Karen Webster noted in the latest installment of Topic TBD, even as faster payments takes a step closer to reality in the U.S.,

Same Day ACH

PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

In this month’s Faster Payments Tracker™ , powered by NACHA, payment providers, in efforts to keep up with modern behavior, are looking for new ways to streamline and quicken financial processing. Here’s a sneak peek: The ultimate goal, Waterhouse said, is ubiquity – namely, to make real-time payments mainstream. “We

Faster Payments

Faster Payments Council

JUNE 11, 2020

Within the faster payments arena, we've got a lot. While we're well on our way to establishing a thriving faster payments ecosystem, we recognize we're still missing a key factor that can contribute to achieving ubiquitous faster payments: interoperability.

Interoperability

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The uptake of faster payment systems keeps going up — and up, and up. In fact, the number of Same Day ACH transactions rose by 192 percent in Q3 2018 over the same period from the previous year. So, what’s holding back a more rapid faster payments adoption? Around The Faster Payments World.

Central Bank

PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

. “But the issue with ACH is the separation of remittance claim data from the actual ACH payment. This remains a hurdle, probably, to why [ACH] is not ubiquitous.” In B2B, the demand for remittance data means ACH adoption can be stunted, let alone adoption of Same Day ACH.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

When The Clearing House (TCH), the payments firm owned by commercial banks, along with global software and services provider FIS, recently submitted their proposal to the Fed’s Faster Payments Task Force in order to evaluate their real-time payments system proposal, it signified a milestone along the path toward real-time payments.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

The path to faster payments in the U.S. doesn’t have to be paved with a 500+ person task force analyzing what the world would look like if we were starting from a clean sheet of paper, competing propositions for who’s going to build and operate a new set of rails, or even what sort of spiffy software can make existing rails faster.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

Nearly two years after its launch, Same Day ACH (SDA) credits are being used by nearly half of businesses and government agencies (that’s not bad for the only ubiquitous faster payments network in the U.S. Same Day ACH Users. today), but not necessarily to pay their suppliers.

Same Day ACH

PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

Take faster payments. The company that commercialized the idea and consolidated the market to establish the first global faster payments network was Western Union in 1851. Western Union launched its national money transfer, which provided fast payments between people and businesses, in 1871. The year was 1837.

Fed

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 ACH rails now settle same-day, three times a day. It may have started in 2007 when the U.K. s footsteps. Here in the U.S.,

B2B

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Same-Day ACH , launched in September of 2017, makes emergency payroll possible — not instantly, but within the same business day. Banks also know that unless such a network is ubiquitous, it’s not worth much. Slowing Innovation.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

We see similar dynamics at play in the B2B payments space around the notion of real-time payments. The bank account is the ubiquitous funding source used by trading partners to pay each other. Same Day ACH leverages existing rails to enable same-day funds availability, discussing options to expand their settlement windows.

Rules

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Same Day ACH became a reality in 2017 after the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) introduced its faster payments infrastructure to the market. The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) published a new report this month calling for cross-border payments to accelerate.

Cross-Border Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Same Day ACH Is Here. It’s been a long road to ubiquitous, faster payments in the U.S. But in less than 18 months after NACHA members approved Same-Day ACH functionality for all of the banks in the U.S., Faster with ubiquity — a major sizzle for banks, businesses and consumers.

Data Breach

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Faster Payments. It’s not that real-time payments are bad or even a fizzle. NACHA just launched Same Day ACH – the only faster ubiquitous payments play in the U.S. It’s one big hot faster payments mess since.

CFPB