Fed Instant Payments TCH 
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 12, 2020
In an interview with Karen Webster, Boston Federal Reserve Chief Operating Officer and FedNow Program Executive Ken Montgomery said the central bank’s ambitious payments initiative remains on track — and will inject competition into the instant payments market. The Timeframe .
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AUGUST 6, 2019
The Fed plans to build its own instant clearing and settlement rails. We only get to make this kind of decision once every 30 or 40 years,” Brainard said, noting that this was the biggest payments oriented move made by The Fed since the early 1970s and the implementation of the ACH system. “At It’s now official.
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PYMNTS
MARCH 18, 2019
Connecting these two dots suggests a few important things that, for banks and card networks, might be the 2020 hindsight that could have come in handy had they stopped to look backwards a few years ago: That the Fed has much more than a passing interest in how faster payments are run in the U.S. This delay was initiated by the Fed.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 10, 2020
Federal Reserve, where details (a roadmap, really) of FedNow , the proposed instant payment system, were released earlier this month. But with a 2023-24 timeframe to implementation, the Fed’s efforts will take a while to cross the Rubicon from concept to reality. Achieving ubiquity across the 12,000 or so FIs in the U.S.
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Another solution is designed to accelerate payments beyond even same-day offerings. TCH, which is co-owned by 25 banks, launched Real-Time Payments (RTP) in November 2017. The new rail facilitates 24/7 payment clearing and settlement in real time. The Clearing House (TCH), for instance, has voiced its opposition.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 25, 2019
“We might be at a tipping point in the market, [in which] the market just demands faster payments,” said Matt Richardson, head of product solutions at Citizens Bank. . Citizens plans to provide greater payments speed to its clients this year by using the RTP rail developed by The Clearing House (TCH).
PYMNTS
JANUARY 21, 2019
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. The letter cited what has become the all-too-familiar talking point about the state of faster payments in the U.S.
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