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The Clearing House On The Race for Real-Time Payments In The US

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Financial service providers should sit up and take notice: Four out of 10 surveyed Main Street SMBs said they would be interested in switching to point-of-sale (POS) providers or acquirers offering that capability. What’s Next.

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Getting RTP’s Roadmap, Consumer Demand For It In Sync

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Looking at the two types of merchants — online or physical stores — he said real-time payments are less likely to gain traction in a brick-and-mortar setting, at least on the consumer side of the equation. They typically pay interchange fees, and settlement of card payments can stretch across as long as 30 days. The Corporate Case.

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What Is FedNow & How Can Businesses Prepare for It?

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FedNow works by offering banks, credit unions, and other organizations such as retailers a system where they can utilize instant payment services that go through this core process: The payer (e.g. an employer paying an employee their wages) uses an app provided by their credit union to request the desired payment.

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