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Deep Dive: The Benefits And Challenges Of Real-Time Push Payments

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That consideration includes assessing the potential benefits and risks that come with the two fundamental types of bank payments: push and pull transactions. These methods have subtle distinctions as well as different advantages, risks and use cases. Common forms of pull payments include debit cards and paper checks.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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where almost everyone is now banked) and made the case for why the Fed was positioned as the best player to operate a ubiquitous, interoperable real-time payments network – even though the Fed doesn’t have a great track record at payments innovation ( #killthecheck ). It flew in on Dec. Here’s where the canary flew in.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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That’s the talk track now from the Fed , which a week ago today announced its plans to build and operate a new set of real-time rails, using accelerated access to employer paychecks as its launch use case. Ironically, perhaps, the ACH network’s first direct deposit use case was the U.S. It’s a pretty bold claim.

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The State Of Faster Payments: ‘Early Innings’

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Visa and Mastercard , via their debit rails, enable real-time push payments in support of a number of peer-to-peer (P2P) and business-to-peer (B2P) use cases. 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.

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Bridging The Gap Between Appearance And Reality Of Instant Payments

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Nobody cares what rails are going to be used any more than I care when I call you up on the phone what wires and satellites carried the signal to you,” Edwards said. On the front end, funds are pushed to the end consumer and are possibly even available for instant use. Consumers, not so much.

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What Check Fraud Can Teach Banks About Preparing For The Instant Payments Future

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Perhaps that’s why, in the midst of the seemingly never-ending stream of headlines about data breaches, account takeovers, stolen credit cards and online fraud , the notion of “check fraud” seems something of an outlier for the up-and-coming fraudster looking to make a decent living. And the death of checks – sooner rather than later.

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Sleepless In Payments

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Sleep experts contend that people just sleep less than they used to, maybe even as much as 20 percent less than even a few decades ago. That is unless you live in Melbourne, Australia, where things seem pretty chill. Those guys and gals sleep the most of anyone in the world – about six and a half hours a night – and pretty peacefully.