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B2B Not A Vital Part Of Real-Time Payments Innovation, Yet

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Faster payments schemes across the globe are placing new definitions on what it means to be fast, especially as more initiatives heard towards real-time transacting. In the three years since FIS began this annual report, the number of real-time payments programs more than doubled, researchers noted.

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When Payments Go North

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But while it may seem a little bit late in the game for American Express to make its grand entrance, the company has walked this ground before — it was the first card issuer to let Canadian cardholders make contactless payments via the Apple Wallet mobile payments platform. Protecting mobile purchases .