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FedNow overtakes TCH in adoption

Bank Automation

MARCH 22, 2024

FedNow, launched just eight months ago, has overtaken its main competitor, The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments network, in terms of the number of banks on the platform.

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RTP payment volume up 94% in 2024

Bank Automation

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Clearing House Real Time Payments network grew 94% year over year on a dollar basis in 2024 as it continued to benefit from the Federal Reserves marketing of FedNow. TCH moved $246 billion on its network in 2024 and increased transaction volume by 38% YoY to 343 million transactions, according to a Jan.

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Fed, TCH joust over interoperability

Payments Dive

MAY 7, 2024

When it comes to bridging the FedNow and RTP networks, officials at the Federal Reserve and The Clearing House have slightly different priorities.

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Mastercard and The Clearing House deepen their partnership to zero in on new instant payments applications

Tearsheet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Mastercard recently expanded collaboration with The Clearing House (TCH), with the shared goal of propelling the adoption of instant payments. This extended partnership will focus on integrating additional instant payment use cases across a range of payment flows for consumers, businesses, and governments.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s also not why the Fed decided to enter the real-time payments fray. Such as how the Fed plans get a critical mass of participants on board, which The Clearing House (TCH) is struggling to do now. Igniting a network at scale and right out of the box can be a real pain, as the litany of failed payments startups knows all too well.

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The Clearing House On The Race for Real-Time Payments In The US

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

You’d be forgiven for thinking that faster payments might be the purview of the U.S. Federal Reserve, where details (a roadmap, really) of FedNow , the proposed instant payment system, were released earlier this month. In other cases, stimulus payments were commingled with tax refunds, and were subject to garnishment.

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Real-Time Payments Move Past Early Adopters

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The tipping point toward real-time payments’ ubiquity might be closer than many observers think, Mark Ranta , payments practice lead at FinTech Alacriti , told PYMNTS in a recent interview. And beyond TCH and RTP, the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments solution looms. consumers).

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The Fed Debuts FedNow

PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Introduced on Monday by Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard, the Fed’s instant payment scheme FedNow is designed to offer an option for consumers and business to transfer money instantly or nearly instantly in a “ubiquitous, safe and efficient” manner from one bank account to another. “We Why Now For FedNow.

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ACI moves real-time payments onboarding to cloud

Bank Automation

APRIL 4, 2024

ACI Worldwide is exploring the use of its cloud platform to onboard bank clients to The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments network.

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US Faster Payments Council Expands With ACI Worldwide

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Faster Payments Council (FPC) is growing with the addition of ACI Worldwide, as the electronic payments and banking solution provider announced this week. initiatives of innovating in faster payments capabilities and promoting adoption of real-time payments. Membership in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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FedNow’s Montgomery: Gearing Up For 2023-24 — And Instant Payments Competition

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

There is no dearth of faster payments initiatives — and no certainty that there will be one faster payments scheme to rule them all. Along the way, not surprisingly, we’ll transition more fully to digital payments across modernized (and streamlined) rails, flowing domestically and eventually across borders.

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Different faster pay schemes must collaborate

Payments Source

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If the intention is for FedNow to give the market a choice, particularly to smaller, local banks then interoperability between the TCH and FedNow is a must, says FIS' Elena Whisler.

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Happy First Birthday FedNow: But is This a Cause For Celebration?

The Fintech Times

JULY 24, 2024

Last year, the US Federal Reserve launched FedNow as a competitive alternative for instant payments in the US. Celebrating its first birthday, we review how the instant payments service has been adopted over the past year. However there is one difference: FedNow is primarily targeted at banks – not at consumers.

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Faster Payment Becomes A Federal Case

PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

There’s a battle brewing in payments. It’s the Feds versus the Free Marketeers, and the feud between them is over whose real-time payments (RTP) rails will rule them all. Sensing that existing fast payments are not accessible enough, the Fed proposed the FedNow? 5 [2019] announcement of FedNow.

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Transactions: Mastercard, The Clearing House extend RTP collaboration

Bank Automation

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mastercard extended its collaboration with The Clearing House today to allow customers and businesses to use real-time payments. Mastercard will be the exclusive instant payments software provider for The Clearing House’s (TCH) RTP network, according to a news release from Mastercard.

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Faster Payment Networks are a ‘Must-Have’ for 78% of US-Based Financial Firms

The Fintech Times

JANUARY 19, 2024

Financial firms in the US are highly interested in faster payment networks, with 78 per cent saying it is a ‘must-have’ for their organisation; according to Volante Technologies , the payments-as-a-service (PaaS) firm.

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The Clearing House’s Strategies To Drive RTP Uptake

PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

Even the most convenient, feature-filled payment rails will fall flat if nobody can be convinced to try them. Such systems can offer everything from swifter settlement times to easy payment status tracking, but such benefits require widespread adoption. There was not going to be one method to access the system.

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Today In Payments: Flywire Could IPO In Late 2021 With A $3 Billion Valuation; Mastercard Debuts NextGen Contactless Technology

PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

In today’s top news, Flywire could file for an IPO later this year that could value that company at $3 billion, and Mastercard debuted new quantum-resistant technology for contactless payments. Plus, the Federal Reserve released its list of over 110 organizations participating in its FedNow instant payments pilot program.

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Jefferson Bank Expands Partnership With Finastra to Boost Its Instant Payments Strategy

Fintech Finance

MARCH 11, 2024

Finastra today announced that Jefferson Bank , an independent, bank serving communities across Texas, has selected Finastra Payments To Go , a payments-as-a-service solution for its new instant payments services.

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B2B Cross-Border Payments Are Speeding Up

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Cross-border payments still present challenges , but the landscape is changing rapidly. . A trial of the service included one test in which it delivered a payment from Singapore’s FAST scheme through 17 banks and seven countries within 13 seconds. What About FedNow? . Real-Time Challenges.

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Open Payment Network partners with Bankers' Bank

The Paypers

MAY 4, 2023

Open Payment Network (OPN) has partnered with Bankers’ Bank to enable the bank to deliver instant payment services to respondents via API connectivity to TCH-RTP and FedNow.

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Embedded Payments Build Flexibility For Merchants

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

But for payments, the new year will dawn with a combination of disruption and innovation. As companies seek to find new ways to embrace the digital age, payments must be an embedded part of the process — but not a friction-filled one, Webster and Blair agreed. We’ll be happy, all of us, to leave 2020 in the rearview mirror.

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Address Verification, D2C Shopping, Google’s Transition To SAP Ariba Top This Week’s News

PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. Facebook Forms Facebook Financial To Ramp Up eCommerce, Payments Efforts. The new organization will spearhead all of the payments projects of the firm. arm — and if a TikTok 2.0

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Finserv Providers Embrace New Rails For Faster B2B Payments

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Recent analysis from Juniper Research found that blockchain-powered cross-border B2B payments are expected to reach a $4.4 This week’s examination of payments rail modernization looks at a range of service providers embracing new rails rather than relying on technology to improve existing ones. HSBC Loops Into RTP.

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The shifting EWA regulatory framework and its impact on bank partnerships and instant payment adoption

Tearsheet

MARCH 27, 2024

Most employees receiving payments through DailyPay opt for faster payouts, according to Rob Nardelli, director of DailyPay’s commercial banking and business development. According to data from The Clearing House [TCH] for the third and fourth quarters of 2022, DailyPay’s transactions make up one-tenth of all RTP payments.

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Deep Dive: Instant Payments Confront Long Path To Ubiquity

PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

Payments made with cash and checks are dropping in volume — the use of cash alone declined 40 percent over the past five years in Canada. Instant payments started 2020 on a high note, however, with the adoption of real-time payments and other speedy disbursement methods increasing over the past few years.

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99.6% of instant payments processed on RTP network in 2024

Bank Automation

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Clearing Houses Real Time Payments network captured the instant payments market over the Federal Reserves FedNow rail in 2024. of instant payments last year, Jim Colassano, senior vice president of business product management at The Clearing House (TCH), told Bank Automation News.

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The Clearing House Sees Growth In Its Real-Time Payments (RTP)

Tom Groenfeldt

APRIL 16, 2025

Subscribe To Newsletters The Clearing House Sees Growth In Its Real-Time Payments (RTP) By Tom Groenfeldt Follow Author Share Save Comment Innovation Enterprise Tech The Clearing House Sees Growth In Its Real-Time Payments (RTP) By Tom Groenfeldt , Contributor. billion in mid-March, said Gregory MacSweeney, spokesman for TCH.

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Form3’s Unique Platform Delivers Zero-Downtime Payment Processing Using Multi-Cloud Architecture and a Single Code Base for Customers

Fintech Finance

MAY 8, 2025

Form3 , the leading cloud-native account-to-account payments platform, today announced it is the only provider in live production delivering zero-downtime payment processing via a true multi-cloud architecture and a single code base. Form3’s technology supports a broad range of domestic and international payment schemes.

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FedNow overtakes TCH in adoption

RTP payment volume up 94% in 2024

Fed, TCH joust over interoperability

Webinars

Mastercard and The Clearing House deepen their partnership to zero in on new instant payments applications

Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

The Clearing House On The Race for Real-Time Payments In The US

Real-Time Payments Move Past Early Adopters

The Fed Debuts FedNow

ACI moves real-time payments onboarding to cloud

US Faster Payments Council Expands With ACI Worldwide

FedNow’s Montgomery: Gearing Up For 2023-24 — And Instant Payments Competition

Different faster pay schemes must collaborate

Happy First Birthday FedNow: But is This a Cause For Celebration?

Faster Payment Becomes A Federal Case

Transactions: Mastercard, The Clearing House extend RTP collaboration

Faster Payment Networks are a ‘Must-Have’ for 78% of US-Based Financial Firms

The Clearing House’s Strategies To Drive RTP Uptake

Today In Payments: Flywire Could IPO In Late 2021 With A $3 Billion Valuation; Mastercard Debuts NextGen Contactless Technology

Jefferson Bank Expands Partnership With Finastra to Boost Its Instant Payments Strategy

B2B Cross-Border Payments Are Speeding Up

Open Payment Network partners with Bankers' Bank

Embedded Payments Build Flexibility For Merchants

Address Verification, D2C Shopping, Google’s Transition To SAP Ariba Top This Week’s News

Finserv Providers Embrace New Rails For Faster B2B Payments

The shifting EWA regulatory framework and its impact on bank partnerships and instant payment adoption

Deep Dive: Instant Payments Confront Long Path To Ubiquity

99.6% of instant payments processed on RTP network in 2024

The Clearing House Sees Growth In Its Real-Time Payments (RTP)

Form3’s Unique Platform Delivers Zero-Downtime Payment Processing Using Multi-Cloud Architecture and a Single Code Base for Customers

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