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ACI Streamlines Banks’ Path To Real-Time Payments

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ACI Worldwide has unleashed its real-time payment solution for financial institutions (FIs). According to ACI, the solution addresses the challenges banks face when managing multiple, separate systems and schemes involving real-time payments. The company announced news on Tuesday (Oct.

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EU Parliament Eyes New Rules On Cross-Border Payment Fees

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Separately, in terms of individual company news, and also in Europe, EastNets and Bankingblocks said they have teamed up to present modular “banking blocks” aimed at faster cross-border payments. In Canada, Payments Canada said on Wednesday (Feb.

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Moving Money X-Border In The Age Of ‘Business As Unusual’

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billion) annually on remediation of failed payments and failed processing, as 2 million payments fail in Europe alone each day. As Brandli noted, in examining payments firms’ back offices, 80 percent of costs and 100 percent of risk derives from exceptions.

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TRENDING: Inside Hong Kong’s New Faster Payment System

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. Last year, only 25 real-time payment systems were operational worldwide — that number is growing rapidly. Demand is also heating up for real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems. SWIFT also recently rolled out a new initiative, one aimed at connecting real-time payment systems.

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SIA’s Third-Party Approach To RTGS

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Central banks must work hard to keep up with the ever-changing payments landscape. By 1990, many countries had real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems in place to rapidly clear and settle high-value transactions. Despite the evolving nature of the RTGS space, one need has remained constant: security.