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Fed, TCH joust over interoperability

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

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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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Deep Dive: Making Instant Payment Schemes Universal And Interoperable

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An interoperable cross-border solution could remove these frictions and provide smooth transfers between two real-time payment systems, while a single, globally accessible faster payments service could offer swift end-to-end transfers. Smooth communications between players must be supported if payment schemes are to be interoperable.

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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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There’s room for RTP and ACH to co-exist, said Waterhouse, “for a very, very long time.” Interoperability In Focus . Interoperability, said the panel, can improve B2B payments, creating new payments structures that contain message payloads that (can eventually) enable straight-through processing.

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

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These comment letters highlighted the need for features to address accessibility, interoperability, security, liquidity, and fraud prevention,” Montgomery said. Looking Toward Interoperability And Scale . Interoperability is a core component” of FedNow, said Montgomery. The Timeframe .

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Deep Dive: Weighing The Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Proposal

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TCH, which is co-owned by 25 banks, launched Real-Time Payments (RTP) in November 2017. They stated that major banks have too much control over the RTP system and that they regarded the Fed as a compelling and more equitable alternative to achieving payments ubiquity. The Federal Approach.

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JPMorgan’s Interest In National And International RTP

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It wasn’t until November 2017 that The Clearing House (TCH) debuted its Real-Time Payments (RTP) scheme — a system that isn’t expected to see across-the-board adoption until 2020. To achieve its true potential, though, RTP must be adopted by all U.S. Getting RTP to permeate the U.S. Getting RTP to permeate the U.S.

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