PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Digital banks , for one, are teaming up with technology providers to accelerate settlement times for payments collected at the point-of-sale (POS). The Nigerian branch of pan-African banking group Ecobank has been working to serve SMBs with a faster payment system. Ecobank announced recently that 1 billion NGN ($2.75

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Fintech News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Expanding payment connectivity This year’s report puts an emphasis on Singapore’s leadership in cross-border payment integration, underscoring the country’s position at the forefront of payment innovation both regionally and internationally.

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Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

” NPS-NCS and NEPALPAY are part of the National Payment Switch (NPS) initiative, the core infrastructure for routing and settlement of retail transactions to ensure interoperability of card and non-card-based payments within Nepal. billion people.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

These developments include the launch of cross-border QR payment linkage between Singapore and Indonesia , and between Singapore and Malaysia , as well as establishment of connectivity between Singapore’s PayNow and Malaysia’s DuitNow , two national real-time payment systems.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

With the proposed move, Canada is upping its game and staying at the forefront of global payments development. While Canada has a high penetration of contactless card usage, for example, it’s a bit behind in some areas, such as real-time payments. But that could potentially change.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Consumers know that payment methods bearing their brand are accepted at tens of millions of merchants globally and that when they use those products, they work reliably. Retail payments innovators have tapped into that ubiquity-driven certainty to enable new use cases that extend their reach. That creates certainty.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

On the retail payments side, online and mobile banking have transformed how accountholders access and action their money while keeping that access and those actions secure — and that accountholder relationship sticky. But even that is a slow-moving train today and will take time to scale.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

After two decades of tweaking and updating its existing Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, Hong Kong determined it needed a new rail. Changing Retail and Insurance. FPS is likely to encourage companies and consumers to change their retail payment methods. per transaction.

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Faster Payments Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) Payments C2B 49

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In other news tied to large-scale payments infrastructure deployments, the United Kingdom’s New Payment System Operator has invited industry stakeholders to populate specialist advisory groups that will have input on the development of retail payments infrastructure. Payments, Cross-Border and Over the Phone.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Faster is part of a user experience, Edwards said, but not the entirety of it — and the future of faster payments and disbursements in general, he noted, is in building that better optimized total payments experience. Why not leverage the brand the consumer’s comfortable with to affect real-time payments?”

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