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Kuwait’s Real-Time Payment Scheme WAMD Surpasses 1 Million Accounts in First Year

Fintech Finance

KNET utilized ACI’s Digital Central Infrastructure solution to build the central payment infrastructure of WAMD, an interoperable, countrywide scheme that enables account-to-account (A2A) payment transfers via a bank’s mobile app or internet banking service by using a phone number.

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Solving for the Interoperability Challenge

Faster Payments Council

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. 53% of respondents expressed the lack of interoperability as a key barrier to faster payments adoption.

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

PYMNTS

Waiting for the Fed — and its promise of interoperability, which requires participation from the private sector — is akin to playing the (very) long game. Waterhouse said that in terms of TCH’s own initiatives in getting banks on board the ongoing effort to make RTP ubiquitous across the entirety of the U.S.

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Same Day ACH: Impacts At The Intersections

PYMNTS

23, the industry welcomed the rollout of ubiquitous faster payments to every consumer and business in the U.S. “They are trying to maintain interoperability from a global perspective and also trying to achieve that standardization,” he explained. via all banks and credit unions.

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It Takes A Village To Build An Instant-Payments Ecosystem

PYMNTS

Magats said that to offer instant disbursements widely, PayPal has to “stitch together all of the different members of the ecosystem to be able to create our version of interoperability.”. But he added that making payments choice truly ubiquitous means having all choices integrated if one wants to build a transformational customer experience.

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How Interac e-Transfer Won The Ubiquity Game In Canada

PYMNTS

Interac e-Transfer is available at over 255 financial institutions in Canada, making the service nearly ubiquitous from coast to coast. The original Interac solutions eliminated some of that hopping. Once they’re there, introducing new features is just about making sure it’s interoperable for both parties.”.

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Payments Rails, Laying New Tracks

PYMNTS

From an ACH networks standpoint, noted Estep, innovation may be “skinny,” but operations are ubiquitous, connecting all the bank accounts in the United States. Innovation that rides on top of the rails can come from originators and receivers and software companies as well, said Estep.