PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s also not why the Fed decided to enter the real-time payments fray. The Real-Time Payday Reality. For the dwindling numbers of people who still receive a physical paycheck, new applications let workers take a picture of that check and get instant, irrevocable access to the funds for a modest fee.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

When The Clearing House (TCH) unveiled the Real-Time Payments (RTP) system in 2017, it propelled swifter payments and brought about the next generation of fund transfers. It wasn’t the first to roll out such a system, but it was the first “major payments upgrade” in the U.S. RTP in the Bill Payments Realm.

Real Time Payments

FICO

JANUARY 22, 2020

There has been a proliferation of real-time payments fraud, as new near-instant payment platforms, including person-to-person (P2P) transfers and mobile payment platforms grow across Asia Pacific. . Real-time Payments Fraud Defence Strategies. Real-time Payments Fraud: Time For Convergence.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

Payments fraud is continuously moving from offline settings into the online realm. As detailed in the release heralding the acquisition, Visa said the combination of its extant tokenization offerings with the local and account tokenization enabled by Rambus will help secure payments of all types done across the globe.

Transactions

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The “state” of — well, anything — refers to its condition, the attributes and even the state of “mind” that denotes where we are at any given time on an endeavor. Might the state of faster payments be described as “conflicted?”. Even if you take faster payments out of the equation, there are a number of rails,” he said.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

There’s a canary in the faster payments coalmine. That was the day that an advocacy group, Financial Innovation Now (FIN), submitted a public comment letter to the Fed in response to its proposal to create and operate a real-time payments system in the U.S. It flew in on Dec. Here’s where the canary flew in.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Consumers, businesses and governments are seeing faster payments as a path to greater convenience and financial security, and this growing demand is spurring payments services providers (PSPs) to meet this need in a swift, secure manner. Common forms of pull payments include debit cards and paper checks.

Payer

FICO

JANUARY 15, 2018

In a previous blog I wrote about authorized push payment fraud and how social engineering leads to victims making inadvertent payments to fraudsters. I highlighted the case for banks to use behavioral analytics to identify suspicious payments before they are made.

Irrevocability

FICO

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Authorised push payment fraud has been in the news recently, in the UK because of the Which Super Complaint. The advent of real-time payment schemes, such as Faster Payments in the UK, has made push payments more attractive to criminals because they can quickly take the money and run.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

Corporate payments still don’t have a clear role in driving the adoption of faster payment technologies and systems in the U.S. The obvious assumption in the business-to-business (B2B) landscape is that faster payments are not only unnecessary, but unwanted, as corporates don’t necessarily need to move money immediately.

Faster Payments

Faster Payments Council

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Fall Member Meeting will bring together FPC members for two days filled with presentations on the most pressing issues in faster payments, panel discussions with industry experts, roundtables on timely topics, and engaging networking opportunities.

FPC

FICO

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Authorised push payment fraud has been made more attractive to criminals since the advent of real-time payment schemes, such as Faster Payments in the UK — crooks can quickly take the money and run. Authorised push payment fraud schemes are many and varied, some common attack types include: Attacks on Individuals.

Romance Scams

PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

What’s different this time? Tharle said real-time payments have increasingly seen adoption across the globe, as seen in volumes reported in Europe, Australia and the U.S. The combination of faster payments and more parties tied to a transaction heightens the fraud risk, introducing “gaps” where fraudsters can hide.

Business Email Compromise

Finovate

APRIL 25, 2024

Atomic Atomic’s PayLink simplifies subscription management by allowing consumers to efficiently manage, modify, and optimize recurring payments and subscriptions within their financial institutions. Digital wallets, BaaS, fintechs, payment providers, lending institutions, banks, and credit unions.

Credit Union

PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

As faster and real-time payment schemes achieve ubiquity in more markets around the globe, speed is increasingly becoming the standard for payers of all kinds. By definition, real-time payments give financial institutions (FIs) almost no time to analyze and authenticate a transaction to prevent fraud and other financial crimes.

Faster Payments

Nanonets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In Accounts Payable, the importance of vendor payment methods often goes unnoticed despite their substantial influence on the overall cash flow, efficiency of the AP team, and profit margins. The US Federal Reserve's new payment rail FedNow can shake up the landscape, offering significant time and cost savings.

FedNow

PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

In just three years, one word, one idea, has rewritten the payments rulebook: “instant.” Driven by faster phones, ingenious apps and sheer market force, the move to instant is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with payments, opening up new worlds of risk and reward. Making Money Fast. Want to make a CFO smile?

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

“The worldwide rollout of real-time payments – including person-to-person transfers and mobile payments – has given rise to criminal threats that thrive on the fact that these payments are often irrevocable,” said Jason Keegan, who oversees the fraud line of business for FICO.

Financial Crimes

FICO

JUNE 15, 2023

Home Blog Feed test To Stop Scams, It’s Time to Add Sensible Friction to Easy Money The convenience and speed of real-time payments makes it easy for fraudsters to scam individuals. It’s time to consider sensible friction in the process. They Didn’t Teach This in Econ 101 On May 3, the U.S. Unsafe Savings?

Scams

FICO

JULY 31, 2018

Our new interactive European Fraud Map for 2017 reveals changes in payments fraud across Europe, and there's a good news for the UK - but a warning signal for other countries. Based on data from Euromonitor International and UK Finance, the map shows which countries have made significant gains in the fight against card payments fraud in 2017.

Irrevocability

Seon

APRIL 18, 2024

billion in 2022 , facing a formidable opponent in the financial sector: authorized push payment (APP) fraud. The widespread adoption of real-time payments and regulations, including FedNow in the US and the European Union’s revised Payment Services Regulation (PSR) last summer, has further exacerbated this fraud.

Authorization

FICO

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Contingent Reimbursement Model (CRM) is a UK payments industry initiative designed to reimburse victims of authorised push payment fraud (APP fraud). This crime has been facilitated by the advent and popularity of UK Faster Payments; we all appreciate the ability to send money instantly – that includes fraudsters.

Irrevocable Payment

FICO

MAY 28, 2020

Mule activity – Money mules, people whose accounts are used by criminals for money laundering — at times unknowingly — have become a key enabler of both fraud and money laundering. This has grown considerably with the introduction of real-time payments, which not only enable customers to move money quickly but also fraudsters.

Financial Crimes

FICO

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Whether confirming credentials as we make mobile bill payments while standing in line at Starbucks, or checking account balances as we head out to go holiday shopping, we expect speed and convenience to the point that a reasonably clever fraudster can insert themselves into the process.

Online and Mobile Banking

FICO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

5 Ways Digital Payments Will Change FIs and Fraud in 2023. New digital payments channels and methods will grow next year, giving new opportunities for fraudsters and scammers. And the digital payments landscape made a global-scale impact, both positive and negative which FIs now must deal with. FICO Admin. by TJ Horan.

Digital Payments

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Payments people love to talk about rails — whose rails are the fastest, cheapest, most secure, most accepted, most compliant. Although there are many flavors of “instant” payment offerings in the market today, Edwards noted, a lot of what looks instant to the consumer isn’t. FIs and Solving the “One too Many” Payments Puzzle.

Instant Payments

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. In fact, in 2023 , real-time payments only made up one per cent of all payments in the country.

FedNow

FICO

APRIL 29, 2022

There’s a lot going on in the retail payments space – defined as transactions between two consumers, between consumers and businesses, or between two businesses. Some of the changes are related to new digital payments methods like P2P apps, tap-to-pay, and cryptocurrency, which are all growing options in retail environments.

Retail Payments

FICO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

At Finovate, the big news was that FICO Falcon X delivers AI and machine learning technology in dramatically new ways, helping to prevent new forms of fraud and financial crime growing rapidly along two vectors: Real-time payments, including many offerings from fintechs in person-to-person (P2P) and business-to-business (B2B) categories.

Financial Crimes

PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

If context gives us direction and helps us decide what comes next, depending on the circumstances that surround information, data or demands, then why should it be any different for payments in general — banks in particular? Thus, giving context to payments helps make intelligence and data actionable. More on the “why” in a minute.

Payment APIs and Integration

FICO

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Contingent Reimbursement Model is a UK payments industry initiative designed to compensate victims of authorised push payment fraud (APP fraud). This crime has been facilitated by the advent and popularity of UK Faster Payments; we all appreciate the ability to send money instantly – that includes fraudsters.

Irrevocable Payment

Seon

JULY 27, 2023

FedNow, the instant payment service that launched in the US on July 20, 2023, could bring significant new developments to your organization. Launched on July 20, 2023, the FedNow Service is an instant payment system created by the Federal Reserve for American households and businesses. What Is FedNow? What Is FedNow Replacing?

FedNow

PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

Yes, the sobering reality of having to really make money has become an unwelcome wake-up call for those who masked the real value of their business with the never-ending piles of VC cash that just kept underwriting losses and kicked the revenue can way down the road. Introducing The Sleepless In Payments Six. Take checkout.

Online and Mobile Banking

The Payments Association

MAY 14, 2025

Rewiring the cross-border payments paradigm: Risk and security in correspondent banking confirmation May 12 2025 by Payments Intelligence LinkedIn Email X WhatsApp Whats the article about? Cross-border payments support global trade but remain inefficient and risky; modernising them is key to financial inclusion and economic stability.

Cross-Border Payments