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How to Choose Between EFT vs ACH: A Comprehensive Guide

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TL;DR: Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) is the umbrella term for all electronic payments made between bank accounts. EFT is the umbrella term for all electronic transactions that transfer funds digitally between bank accounts using only bank account information. In this article, well help you do just that.

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Unlocking Brazil's Open Banking Potential

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Payment innovators are migrating toward making payments nearly invisible to the payer, with the goal of enabling the movement of funds so seamless and friction-free that the user is less able to identify that a transaction is even taking place. FinTechs have had to take on a leadership role to embracing an imbedded payments experience.

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What are Payment Reversals? Why Do They Happen & How Can Merchants Stop Them?

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A payment reversal is the process through which funds from a transaction are returned to the payer’s account. When a payment reversal occurs, the transaction is effectively undone, meaning that the payee loses the funds that were initially transferred, and the payer regains their money. What is a Chargeback?

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FCA Tells Credit Cards To Ease Up On Non-Payers 

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financial watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is telling credit card companies to reduce fees on non-payers’ debt rather than cancel cards, the agency announced on Monday (Feb. Last month the FCA questioned banks about recently-hiked overdraft fees, some more than doubling. billion annually on interest charges. .

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Top News In Payments: Mastercard CEO Pushes Back Against National Payments System; FCA Tells Credit Cards To Ease Up On Non-Payers

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In today’s top payments news, Mastercard’s CEO speaks out against a national payments system, the FCA tells credit card companies to be reasonable with customers in debt and the People’s Bank of China is prepared to inject $173 billion into the country to stabilize the economic damage wreaked by the coronavirus.

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Knowing When Payments Are Instant – And When They’re Not

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With all of the problems and challenges 2020 has thrown at us, the last thing anyone needs is a nagging perceptual rift between payees and payers about what “instant” means. percent, state that most of their non-government payments come through non-instant methods and take more than a day to receive. Yet, there it is.

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Rise in E-Payments Fraud Demands New Analytics

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Online banking electronic payments fraud is on the rise, as fraudsters explore security gaps in the emerging banking channels. For instance, data released by Financial Fraud Action UK , shows that UK online banking fraud losses increased by 38% in 2014 from 2013, and by 64% in 2015 from 2014.

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