Finextra

JUNE 9, 2025

Similarly, a record 98 million transactions were made through The Clearing House (TCH-RTP) network in Q4 2024 [3]. Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments conference highlighted the progress that is now being made to expand use-cases and benefits. The use of real-time and near real-time payment rails is also expanding.

ISO 20022

Cardfellow

JUNE 16, 2025

FedNow is a real-time payment system created by the US Federal Reserve that went live in the summer of 2023. Banks could choose to allow instant payments between users, mimicking features offered by digital wallet transfers services such as Venmo. What is FedNow? In a few days, the money will be available to you.

FedNow

The Payments Association

AUGUST 8, 2025

By 2030, the payments landscape will look radically different from today, shaped by disruptive technologies, shifts in consumer expectations, digital regulatory frameworks, and new global infrastructures. In essence, payments are no longer an action; they are becoming infrastructure. in fees on average. to under 1%. What comes next?

Cross-Border

Finextra

JULY 23, 2025

billion payments totaling $86.2 The continued growth of Same-Day ACH settlements shows businesses want faster options while maintaining the cost-effectiveness and reliability that made ACH the backbone of B2B payments. This evolution reflects a more nuanced understanding of payment needs.

Real Time Payments

Payments Dive

JULY 11, 2025

Mesut Dogan via Getty Images Financial institutions that seek to send payments via the Federal Reserve’s Fedwire Funds Service must migrate to a new international standard come Monday. That’s when banks are required to begin using the ISO 20022 standard for electronic payments they choose to send over that Fed real-time settlement rail.

ISOs

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

These efforts include TCH’s efforts to connect financial institutions’ (FIs’) core banking systems to the company’s Real-Time Payments (RTP) network, along with what card networks and FinTechs are doing to enable real-time push payments to receiver bank accounts. New Trends Emerging.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The tipping point toward real-time payments’ ubiquity might be closer than many observers think, Mark Ranta , payments practice lead at FinTech Alacriti , told PYMNTS in a recent interview. Ranta said RTP is already past the “early adopter” stage and moving into the “fast follower” phase of its evolution.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

According to Russ Waterhouse , executive vice president of Product Development and Strategy at The Clearing House (TCH), the surge in digitization brought on by the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the evolution of a range of RTP (Real-Time Payments) network advancements, including instant payroll, merchant settlements and tokenization.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

More recently, Visa issued public support of bitcoin and other digital assets in a July blog post that similarly highlighted opportunities in real-time payments. “That day made an earthquake in digital assets, because to me, it takes the narrative off the table that the government is going to ban bitcoin,” she said.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

Yet for many entities, the concept of implementing real-time processing across an entire system can feel overwhelming complex. As real-time payment infrastructure grows more sophisticated, technology presents an opportunity for organizations to mitigate the adoption hurdle. ” Becoming More Adaptive.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2020

Virginia’s Chesapeake Bank has joined The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments (RTP) network, showing that smaller community banks have joined the new trend of enabling instantaneous payments and receipts for customers, a press release said. As there are over 11,000 FIs in the U.S.,

RTP

Faster Payments Council

MAY 17, 2021

Introduction on RTP and its adoption around the world. While real-time payments (RTP) was previously considered an infrastructure luxury, it has now become a common method of payment in many parts of the world. This adoption has changed the payments landscape. Why RTP is used?

RTP

PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the face of it, the lure of real-time payments might seem like an inevitability. a number of leading tech companies have become vocal in their support of a real-time payments (RTP) network, to be created under the leadership of the Federal Reserve and different from what has been previously proposed by the big banks.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Amazon , Apple and Google are among the large tech companies that are throwing their support behind the creation of a real-time payments network in the U.S. to speed up payments. to speed up payments. led by the Federal Reserve. That hasn’t been adopted by smaller financial firms, noted the report.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s also not why the Fed decided to enter the real-time payments fray. The Real-Time Payday Reality. What we do know is that it’s been tough to get support for banks to invest in new, real-time clearing and settlement infrastructure. TCH cleared its first RTP transaction on November 14, 2017.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

Some financial institutions (FIs) are seeking to help their corporate clients tap into real-time payments (RTP) to keep up the pace. . “We We might be at a tipping point in the market, [in which] the market just demands faster payments,” said Matt Richardson, head of product solutions at Citizens Bank. .

Real Time Payments

Tearsheet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“Beyond extending our partnership with Mastercard, we intend to partner on innovating for the banks that use the network by looking for additional use cases that they’ve expressed interest in and that would help drive volume across RTP,” said Lee Alexander, Executive VP and CIO at The Clearing House. This encompasses a variety of aspects.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

The rise of Zelle , and any number of peer-to-peer (P2P) payment options, has increasingly brought consumers on board with the need for speed in payments — where settlement is marked by seconds and minutes, not hours or days. where, for example, the Federal Reserve is mulling the development of its own real-time system. (

RTP

PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

MUFG Union Bank is now offering business customers real-time payments on The Clearing House (TCH) RTP network, MUFG announced on Thursday (Jan. The RTP network provides instantaneous payments that allow customers the convenience of using funds right away. in over 40 years, the release noted.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

Even the most convenient, feature-filled payment rails will fall flat if nobody can be convinced to try them. Such systems can offer everything from swifter settlement times to easy payment status tracking, but such benefits require widespread adoption. Offering new capabilities is one way for a payment rail to stand out.

RTP

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

APRIL 10, 2025

As a B2B vendor, implementing real-time payments can significantly enhance your business operations and financial health. Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash ) Core Networks for Real-Time B2B Transactions Here are the B2B real-time payment solutions currently available in the U.S.,

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

While commercial real-time payments became available in the U.S. By the end of 2018, the RTP network reached a little more than half of U.S. Last month, payment company PayFi and The Clearing House (TCH) partnered to bring real-time payment technologies to community banks.

Real Time Payments

Finovate

MARCH 8, 2024

Sila has partnered with Trice to leverage the company’s safeguards for instant payments. Sila combines FedNow and The Clearinghouse’s RTP to allow ACH transactions to be settled in seconds. There has been some movement in the instant payments world this week. The tool combines The Clearing House’s RTP, the U.S.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

When it comes to payments, speed isn’t the only factor to consider in the deployment of real-time payments (RTP) systems. Security and compliance are also vital components in ensuring that payments are delivered safely and without delay. In the domestic payments space, the U.S. Rapid Growth.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

As banks continue on their paths to implementing The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments (RTP) rail, financial services firm FIS wants to ease friction of the adoption process. Simulation testing is a requirement for financial institutions and payment companies to connect to RTP, FIS explained.

Real Time Payments

Fintech Finance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mastercard and The Clearing House (TCH) have announced an extended multi-year partnership, bringing the companies together to collaborate on innovative capabilities for consumers, businesses and governments to evolve and embrace the digital economy through real-time payments (RTP) adoption on the RTP® network.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Also seen in this week’s roundup of the latest in Bank-FinTech innovations was Alacriti teaming with The Clearing House on real-time payments (RTP), while Singapore Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) startup RootAnt concluded a seed round with $1.46 Fusion Reveals Payments Platform Banks. Europe and South Africa.

Innovation

PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Payment company PayFi and The Clearing House (TCH) have partnered to bring real-time payments technologies to the community banks on PayFi’s Branch99TM Real-Time Platform, according to a release. “We PayFi said its RTP network is the first new core payments infrastructure in over 40 years.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Wells River Savings Bank will gain access to the RTP® network built by The Clearing House (TCH) via SHAZAM, Inc. In other words, the coronavirus has brought about increasing usage – and use cases – for TCH’s RTP network. according to a Tuesday (Jan.

RTP

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

financial industry that was founded before the Civil War, to drive adoption of real-time payments across the banking industry. Founded in 2003, Alacriti , which works with banks and other clients on making the transition to digital payments, said on Tuesday (Oct.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The Corporate America Credit Union (CACU), which serves almost 500 credit unions (CUs) around the world, has become a funding agent for the RTP network, The Clearing House ’s (TCH) real-time payments network, according to a release. By becoming a funding agent, CACU is now a partner that can make that process easier.”.

Credit Union

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Canada Taps Vocalink for Real-Time Rail. As Canada gears up to launch its real-time payments system, the Real-Time Rail (RTR), Payments Canada , the entity at the head of the initiative, has announced that Mastercard -owned Vocalink has been chosen as the clearing and settlement solution provider for the new payment rail.

B2B

The Fintech Times

APRIL 8, 2024

The Clearing House , the US-based payments network provider, processed a record 76.4 The Clearing House also revealed that March became a record month for its real-time payments (RTP) network, boasting over 26 million transactions across the month.

RTP

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Plus, FIS has partnered with The Clearing House (TCH) on real-time payments (RTP). Cloud Payment Processor Volante Teams With Goldman Sachs On Digital Transaction Banking. is working with Goldman Sachs Bank USA to offer the payments platform for the financial institution’s digital transaction service.

TCH

PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Adoption of real-time payments in the U.S. The assumption, of course, is that faster payment functionality only has a place in the peer-to-peer payments arena. ’s push for real-time payments is led by The Clearing House, which aims for ubiquity of its real-time payments (RTP) network by 2020.

RTP

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

FIS has partnered with The Clearing House (TCH), the operator of the nation’s payments system infrastructure to provide instant settlements to small to mid-sized banks and credit unions (CUs) and their customers. As our volume of real-time payments grows, we can easily scale to meet the growing demand.”.

RTP

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Recently-launched capabilities like Same Day ACH have unlocked opportunity to wield modern technology and build new solutions on top of existing payment rails in favor of speed and transaction transparency, but there’s another strategy to payments innovation that continues to gain traction. Corporates’ Real-Time Demand.

Settlement