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From a Press Release dated June 9, 2025, Fort Lee, NJ Cross River Bank has launched its Request for Payment (RfP) solution, a new feature designed to enable secure, real-time inbound payments via the RTP® (Real-Time Payments) network.
Payers have to know that payees will accept certain payment methods before making purchases, and payees do not want to invest until they know payment instruments are in demand. Banking association and payments company The Clearing House (TCH) has been confronting such concerns as it advances its real-time payment ( RTP ) offering in the U.S.,
The capability will streamline inbound money movement and enhance funding agility across the Real-Time Payments (RTP) ® network. A leader in instant payments and an early adopter of the RTP ® network, Cross River moves over $1 billion monthly in real-time disbursements across RTP ® and FedNow combined.
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The appetite for new payments approaches is only growing, with The Clearing House (TCH) reporting that 400 more FIs have already gained technical access to the RTP network.”. RTP Doing Its Part for a Quicker Recovery. percent of payers said they provide these options, but only 52.7
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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. Payment solution providers are now also getting in on the real-time game and supporting a growing list of RTP use cases that use the network for rapid transaction speeds.
Push, or credit, transactions see payers instructing their banks to send money from their accounts to recipients’ accounts, whereas pull, or debit, transactions have recipients’ banks extract money from payers’ accounts. Payers provide PINs or signatures, which grant recipients permission to extract funds.
Regional bank holding company Huntington is now using the RTP network, meaning it now has a new real-time payments option to help people get money nearly instantly, according to a press release. RTP is offered through The Clearing House and is touted as the first new payments rail in the U.S.
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as service providers old and new introduce more options for consumer and business payers to move money quickly and, in some cases, instantly. However, real-time payments (RTP) have a long way to ubiquity, and while each payment rail has its advantages, each also has drawbacks that could stifle efforts for near-universal adoption.
The decision will be made based upon an array of factors, including which payment method offers the lowest cost to the payer, enables the fastest delivery and other parameters pre-established by the treasurer client. If not, the payment will then automatically be initiated via ACH.
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I think there is so much complexity here because there are people that want to be paid by different mechanisms, there are different billing infrastructures, different ERPs, and millions of payees and payers that need to find connections,” he said. “So The Path to Integration.
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There is no single correct road map, Edwards said, but there are guidelines useful for any interested payer. Serving SMBs as payers — as opposed to mainly as receivers of payments — is one of the next big open frontiers to conquer, he said, once the world of smokestack industries and large corporate treasury departments are dealt with.
Consequently, the RTP Network , the payment processing network used to send money electronically between banks in the United States, operated by The Clearing House , has seen a huge uptake in usage, surpassing one billion payments. This milestone has been reached just 18 months after the RTP Network crossed the 500 million transaction mark.
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