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How Overlay Services Add New Opportunities In Open Banking

PYMNTS

researchers have found that a general understanding and awareness of the regulation remains low. In a PYMNTS interview, according to Sean Devaney, VP of banking and financial markets at consulting and IT firm CGI , the real pickup of Open Banking is only just beginning with the emergence of so-called overlay services.

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Real-Time Payments Move Past Early Adopters

PYMNTS

We have not seen the use cases or the digital overlay services rolled out,” he noted. That accelerated settlement of funds can be especially useful for individuals and families living paycheck to paycheck (which PYMNTS research has found represent roughly 60 percent of U.S. consumers).

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Cyberattackers Go Global To Steal Company Cash

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. $80,000 is now the average amount phishers demand from their business email compromise targets , according to new research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) in its second-quarter 2020 Phishing Activity Trends Report. statistic through the rollout of its Confirmation of Payee service for banks in the market.

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US Banks Are ‘Conflicted With Worries’ as Demand for Instant Payments Grows; Reveals RedCompass Labs

The Fintech Times

In fact, less than a third of US banks are signed up to either RTP or FedNow , meaning the vast majority cannot offer instant payments as a service; new research from RedCompass Labs , the payments modernisation company, has revealed. However, the same cannot be said in the US.

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To Accelerate Payments, Mix Rails Or Nix Rails?

PYMNTS

Faster Payments Council released new research on the nation’s faster payments progress. A business service can either be used in its native form by participating financial institutions and third parties, or it can be further built on and commercialized by an organization wanting to develop an overlay service on top.”.