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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day. Then came PayPal’s debut of Instant Transfer to Bank. TCH is the association of the 25 largest banks in the U.S., A Couple of Important Dots.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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Same-Day ACH , launched in September of 2017, makes emergency payroll possible — not instantly, but within the same business day. Such as how the Fed plans get a critical mass of participants on board, which The Clearing House (TCH) is struggling to do now. Slowing Innovation.

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Deep Dive: Weighing The Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Proposal

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Consumers may find it easy to pull out cards, but this system doesn’t work as well for retailers, who must wait one to three days for those payments to process. . Use of Same Day ACH (SDA) — overseen by NACHA (The Electronic Payments Association) and the Federal Reserve — has risen. Faster Rails. The Federal Approach.

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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. FIN members include Amazon , Apple , Google , Intuit , PayPal , Stripe and Square. It also comes at a time in the U.S.

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Tribe Payments’ Bankbox Allows For Payroll, AP Integration

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PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster wrote about the issues this created within the industry: “First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same-Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day.

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Real-Time Payments Have Numerous Real-World Applications

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Earlier this month, payment company PayFi and The Clearing House (TCH) partnered to bring real-time payments technologies to the community banks. According to the organization, the RTP network currently reaches over 50 percent of U.S. transaction accounts. Adoption depends greatly on partnerships to make RTP more accessible.

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Amex Sizzles, Big Banks Fizzle And Indian eCommerce Lives Up To Its Sizzling Hype

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SWIFT has its thing, IBM is doing something else and allegedly with The Clearing House and Vocalink (although it’s been crickets from TCH for quite some time). Speaking of the networks, there’s Mastercard and Vocalink, not to mention Visa Direct and its work with PayPal, Fiserv and Square. ACI and Vocalink inked a deal.

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