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Payments Canada Unveils Real-Time Payment System Progress

The Fintech Times

Payment clearing and settlement system operator Payments Canada has revealed that it has made ‘substantial progress’ on the Real-Time Rail, Canada’s first real-time payment system, since the back-end of 2024. It includes aspects of expanded membership once it is enforced.

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Kuwait’s Real-Time Payment Scheme WAMD Surpasses 1 Million Accounts in First Year

Fintech Finance

KNET utilized ACI’s Digital Central Infrastructure solution to build the central payment infrastructure of WAMD, an interoperable, countrywide scheme that enables account-to-account (A2A) payment transfers via a bank’s mobile app or internet banking service by using a phone number.

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Mastercard: Collaboration Is Key To Scaling Real-Time Payments

PYMNTS

With speed being the most obvious value proposition of real-time payments capabilities, it’s not difficult to imagine that corporate payers would be eager to embrace faster payments functionality in their accounts payable (AP) departments. Tackling Barriers, Both Real and Perceived.

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

PYMNTS

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.

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Real-Time Payments Steps Up To Fulfill Demand For Faster Funds

PYMNTS

It’s time to embrace it, especially for financial institutions (FIs) and adjacent players that intend to stay relevant in this market. The appetite for new payments approaches is only growing, with The Clearing House (TCH) reporting that 400 more FIs have already gained technical access to the RTP network.”. More FIs Onboarding.

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ACI moves real-time payments onboarding to cloud

Bank Automation

ACI Worldwide is exploring the use of its cloud platform to onboard bank clients to The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments network.

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Hitting The Gas On Real-Time Payments Adoption

PYMNTS

The year 2020 has been an unexpected one, to say the least — not least of all for the payments ecosystem. This year was supposed to be a tipping point for real-time payments adoption in the U.S., real-time payments journey. The faster payments ecosystem in the U.S. The Tallest Hurdles.