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Real-Time Payments Successfully Gets Through Its First Test Drive

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was moved between accounts at two different banks (there was only one customer with two bank accounts) via RTP, the name for a new “Real-Time Payments” system set up by The Clearing House. The system sees some business actually attaching paper checks to account files just so they can match payment with bills.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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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.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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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. The letter cited what has become the all-too-familiar talking point about the state of faster payments in the U.S.

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FPC 2022 Fall Member Meeting

Faster Payments Council

Speakers: Barry Tooker, TransactionBanker.com; Jim Cunha, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Andrew Haskell, BNY Mellon; Rodman Reef, Reef Carson Consulting 10:45am-11:25amCT: Concurrent Breakout Session – Real-Time Payment APIs, Global Market Practices, and Lessons Learned for the U.S.

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Unwrapping APAC’s Faster Payments Fraud Threat

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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.

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When Instant Payments Are Just Payments

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Inspecting the “up-and-to-the-right” growth curve of instant payments , it’s no shock how many players want in. And as promising as things are in the early stages, there’s work to be done before instant becomes ubiquitous. As instant becomes ubiquitous, FIs will have to say goodbye to some sacred cows of banking.