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AppBrilliance Brings Real-Time Frictionless Payments to Closed Loop Digital Wallets With RTP & FedNow

Fintech Finance

AppBrilliance , a pioneer in real-time payment solutions with its cutting-edge Money API platform, is leveraging a recent rule change by The Clearing House to expand use-cases for Real Time Payments (RTP) to closed-loop digital wallets in the US.

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Breaking Down The Faster Payments Construct

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Two new same-day settlement windows will be added to the ACH Network, which will increase the actual movement of funds between all those financial institutions from once a day (at the beginning of the day) to three times a day. Take merchant acquirers who wish to expedite the posting of funds on the same day to a merchant’s bank account.

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Western Union Enables Real-Time Account-To-Account X-Border Payments For Banks, Digital Wallets

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Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek told Karen Webster that real time means that receivers will have funds available to spend within minutes, enabling new real-time, cross-border, cross-currency payments capabilities for C2C, B2C and B2B use cases. “We

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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on board because it offered a solution for use cases where same-day was essential. It isn’t real-time, but it seems good enough for a lot of use cases. A payment is the embodiment of good funds to an authenticated buyer and supplier, along with the detailed data that travels with it.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Card rails are using push payments to close those gaps and support many new use cases for instant money. Both card networks are pushing money over their debit rails and instantly into the bank accounts of consumers and SMBs using their debit card aliases. See First Data and Fiserv. See Visa and Earthport.

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How Uncertainty Kills Commerce

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Businesses wait to be paid by their buyers — not knowing when the money will actually be received, if it is good funds and sometimes how much they’ll get. So do their corporate customers: certainty that there are good funds and certainty about when they can access the money. Businesses spend a lot of time waiting too.

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The Roil Over B2B Payments Rails

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Instead, it’s a lack of certainty that good funds are on the way — and when they’re expected to arrive. When funds settle isn’t much of a friction, since, with that information in hand, decisions about cash and working capital can be made. Limits have also been raised for those payments.

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