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Why Payment Speed Alone Won't Win the Real-Time Race

Finextra

Tackling the True Challenge: Operational Readiness Real-time payments demand comprehensive operational transformation. I’ve seen too many companies assume real-time payments is just a tech upgrade—it’s not. This isn’t just better remittance data—it’s better decision-making every day.

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Australia Readies For Real-Time Payments

PYMNTS

Australia is the next jurisdiction to embrace payments speed, with the country preparing for the rollout of its New Payments Platform (NPP), a real-time payments infrastructure, in the coming months. The NPP’s official website highlights four key goals of the faster payments effort. In the U.S.,

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B2B Payments Drive Instant Payments, Crypto Innovation

PYMNTS

New payment rails are once again in the spotlight as real-time payments and cryptocurrency emerge as the top focuses for innovators. In this week’s look at payment rails innovation, the European Union begins paving the way for greater crypto adoption, while Mastercard expands its own crypto accelerator initiative.

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The Not-So-Beaten Path To B2B Payments Real-Time Ubiquity

PYMNTS

The global payments ecosystem’s path to faster and real-time payments ubiquity is an evolution, not a revolution. That is to say, mass adoption will take time, and the factors driving that adoption will almost certainly continue to change and shift as end users’ needs do the same.

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Real Time Heats Up In B2B, While Blockchain Gains Traction

PYMNTS

That includes advancements in Canada's upcoming Real-Time Rail, as well as adoption by Transcard of Mastercard's Track Business Payment Service to facilitate real-time, account-to-account transfers for businesses. Canada Taps Vocalink for Real-Time Rail. Volante Explores the Real-Time B2B Value Prop.

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Transcard Unveils New Account-To-Account Payments Solution

PYMNTS

Under the new account-to-account payments solution, businesses will now be able to receive an eInvoice any time of the day or night, seven days a week, approve the invoice with a simple click, and then schedule or instantly execute a payment via the Real Time Payment (RTP) network or other service, according to a Monday (Nov.

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Moving Data With Money The Key To Faster KYC: identitii

PYMNTS

In an earlier interview with PYMNTS, Ben Peters, chief operating officer at insurance payments solutions company VPay, said a lack of remittance data may be partially to blame for ACH’s lack of ubiquity. In corporate banking and payments, the challenges that arise can be vast.