Finextra

JULY 8, 2025

A quiet revolution is underway, and it’s being led by Real-Time Payments (RTP) - systems that enable the instant transfer of funds between bank accounts, 24/7, with settlement occurring within seconds. Globally, infrastructures like SEPA Instant in Europe, FedNow in the United States, Aani in the UAE, and Pix in Brazil are gaining momentum.

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Finextra

JUNE 9, 2025

FedNow is also reporting significant growth, with more than 1.3 In June, FedNow will increase its limit to $1 million. Same day Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments rose 19.1% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2025 [1]. million transactions settled in the same period [2]. is taking steps to increase transfer limits.

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Finovate

JUNE 18, 2025

The bill will enable regulated stablecoins and essentially facilitate real-time settlement, 24/7 money movement, and programmable financial interactions. This method of funds transfer won’t rely on traditional rails like ACH, wires, or even FedNow.

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Finovate

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and founded in 2020, Infinant came to the attention of Finovate audiences courtesy of FinovateFall 2024.

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Finovate

JULY 16, 2025

In the latter half of the year, we can expect to see real world implementations, particularly in wholesale payments, interbank settlement, and liquidity management. Tokenization takes over In the first half of 2025, we saw major pilots for tokenized deposits, treasuries, and real-world assets (RWAs).

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Payments Dive

JULY 17, 2025

Stablecoins have the potential to disrupt traditional financial systems over time by reducing settlement times, and allowing for potentially cheaper transactions,” Dolve wrote in a report last month to his clients. Mizuho Securities analyst Dan Dolev also outlined network strengths, but suggested there are weaknesses to exploit.

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Clearly Payments

MAY 22, 2025

Settlement A settlement is when the funds from a transaction are actually transferred to the merchant. Batch A group of transactions sent for settlement at the same time. Bank Accounts & Settlements Merchant Account A special account used to receive card payments. FedNow A new U.S.

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Tearsheet

JANUARY 9, 2025

At settlement, foreign exchange (FX) services can be integrated into the payment process, enabling businesses to capture additional commercial opportunities. Banking partners can then insert themselves into the currency conversion flow, potentially providing better rates to beneficiaries creating a win-win situation, notes Southall.

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Payments Dive

JULY 11, 2025

That’s when banks are required to begin using the ISO 20022 standard for electronic payments they choose to send over that Fed real-time settlement rail. The Federal Reserve already put its new real-time payments system FedNow on the standard when it was launched in 2023. It is essential that we all speak the same language.

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Finovate

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Real-time payments The adoption of real-time payment systems has been gaining momentum across the globe, especially since the launch of the Federal Reserves FedNow service in 2023. Direct, bank-to-bank payments are popular with merchants because of the lower fees and faster settlement times.

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Payments Dive

JUNE 17, 2025

As part of the settlement approved Monday by a federal judge, the AG also cited MoneyGram for failing to investigate errors and complaints. The settlement resolves an April 2022 civil lawsuit filed in federal court in New York City by the state and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which withdrew as a plaintiff in April 2025. “We

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As the Federal Reserve's FedNow instant payments and settlement system enters into testing and use-case development phases, an emphasis on speed to market, ubiquity and compatibility with other systems remains in the forefront.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 28, 2019

The Clearing House has been quite clear that it did not think the Federal Reserve's FedNow real-time settlement service would be necessary. But some of its executives are rethinking that stance.

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The FedNow real-time payments settlement network through the Federal Reserve could launch prior to its estimated 2024 time frame, but a lot of pieces have to fall into place to make that happen.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

The Fed plans to build its own instant clearing and settlement rails. Why Now For FedNow. For the new inter-bank system, the Federal Reserve will speed up its settlement and clearing processes for payments between banks. It’s now official. It’ll be available 24/7, 365 days a year, and will be initially limited to $25,000.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2020

Not everyone favors the Federal Reserve Board’s launch of its settlement service designed to eliminate the three-day check clearing and support instant payments in the U.S. For the most part, the comments said the introduction of the FedNow would lead to less innovation and unfair competition with the private sector. payment system.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

FedNow is positioned as a competitor to the private systems, with TCH as its only real-time domestic account-to-account competitor, but it also competes with cards and ACH. Still, they will need to weigh the cost of all that work against the upsides of FedNow. FedNow, of course, isn’t NOW at all – it is FedWAIT5YEARS.

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The Paypers

APRIL 5, 2021

The Federal Reserve has launched a two-year pilot program, called FedNow, designed to improve the clearing and settlements process.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

The Federal Reserve has announced a leader of the new FedNow service, which was created to facilitate faster payments in the country with interbank real-time gross settlement (RTGS), as well as integrated clearing, according to a release. First Vice President Kenneth C. More information will be posted soon on the site.

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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. He noted there has been additional input from the FedNow Community of 700 members.

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Tearsheet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

However, the landscape has become more competitive with the introduction of FedNow , the Federal Reserve’s instant payments system that launched last year in July. FedNow and RTP are eyeing new use cases to compete for bank partnerships, however, achieving widespread adoption remains a shared hurdle for both instant payment rails.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The Federal Reserve’s planned faster payments service, the FedNow Service, is slated to have an impact on the speed with which paper checks are processed, adding a new twist to the U.S.’s s path toward faster, digital payments.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 24, 2024

Last year, the US Federal Reserve launched FedNow as a competitive alternative for instant payments in the US. In July 2023, FedNow was launched to the public and after a year of being out in the wild, over 600 financial institutions have adopted the instant payment method. ” And this is exactly what it did. .”

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Payment Savvy

MAY 15, 2023

The Federal Reserve Bank is currently developing a new instant payment service called “FedNow” that will allow financial institutions to make instant payments. The FedNow Service will begin operating in July 2023 and it is the first U.S. Interoperability FedNow intends to work seamlessly with other payment networks.

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Nanonets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The US Federal Reserve's new payment rail FedNow can shake up the landscape, offering significant time and cost savings. In this blog post, we delve into how FedNow could impact businesses and their vendor payment practices. What is FedNow? These are bank-to-bank transfers similar to ACH or wire transfers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

central bank to consider modeling FedNow after the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) framework used in India, The Economic Times (ET) reported on Sunday (Dec. FedNow is the new interbank real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service that will offer integrated clearing functionality for faster digital payments.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

And beyond TCH and RTP, the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments solution looms. Ranta said FedNow will create broader competition in the market. Those that aren't getting in that Wednesday settlement and having to wait until Friday are going to start having a beef with their bank,” he said. consumers).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Networks like The Clearing House’s RTP and the Federal Reserve’s upcoming FedNow service have taken this approach to building new payment rails from the ground up, while other FinTechs are exploring opportunities in technologies, like blockchain, to do the same. Corporates’ Real-Time Demand.

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Fi911

AUGUST 1, 2023

The US Federal Reserve has introduced FedNow ; a new instant payment platform that will facilitate transactions at any given time. What is FedNow? FedNow is the Federal Reserve’s innovative real-time payment service. FedNow is accessible to all banks and credit unions. However, participation is not mandatory.

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Segpay

JUNE 13, 2024

What is FedNow? Last year, the Federal Reserve launched FedNow, an instant payment service expected to revolutionize the US payment landscape. Since its launch in July last year, about 700 banks and credit unions have joined the FedNow network, and this list is expected to grow as the Fed seeks 8,000 financial institutions.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Treasury’s difficulties getting relief money to individuals, has renewed calls for the government to accelerate its FedNow national real-time payments network, still not expected to be operational until at least 2023. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) disbursement fiasco, coupled with the U.S. The Fed’s Failure.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Federal Reserve, where details (a roadmap, really) of FedNow , the proposed instant payment system, were released earlier this month. For small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) eying RTP, Waterhouse said there’s a looming impetus in the form of instant credit card settlement. But it might not be the Federal Reserve ’s doing.

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Fintech Finance

AUGUST 15, 2024

Instant payments use the FedNow service, developed and launched by the Federal Reserve in July 2023, and the RTP® network, launched in 2017 by The Clearing House. So far, over 1,000 banks and credit unions have signed on with either the RTP or FedNow networks, or both, and instant payment volume continues to grow.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

However, the banks that have been and will be successful are the ones that see faster payments as the “new normal” for payments, clearing and settlement — and with the “new normal” comes new ways to do everything, from account-to-account payments to transfers across borders. In the U.S., The Merchant Is Critical .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

Back in May, 80 percent of 66 central banks queried by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) said they were working on CBDCs. Speed – and especially rapid settlement of transactions – has been a key focus of the Fed and other financial stakeholders in the wake of the pandemic.

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Clearly Payments

MARCH 18, 2024

FedNow: A Game Changer for Payments in USA The introduction of FedNow serves to fortify the digital cash transfer landscape in the United States, offering a swifter and more efficient alternative to traditional ACH transfers , all while harmoniously coexisting with other convenient options such as mobile wallets.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Sensing that existing fast payments are not accessible enough, the Fed proposed the FedNow? To ensure fast payments are available to everyone, FedNow will be accessible to all banks, no matter the size. Federal Reserve is hardly alone in envisioning a national fast payments/rapid settlements system. Public vs. Private RTP.

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