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Against that backdrop of moving away from paper payments, and toward ubiquitous real-timepayments, TCH’s Waterhouse said there’s probably not a use case “that’s going to tip the scale here.” There’s room for RTP and ACH to co-exist, said Waterhouse, “for a very, very long time.”
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Federal Reserve said that Fed should develop its own real-timepayments network. The trio is comprised three executives of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City: Barbara Pacheco, former senior vice president, Thomas Hoenig, former president, and Bruce Summers, former director of information technology.
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to Singapore have long been home to real-timepayment schemes, but speed lagged behind when it came to America. It wasn’t until November 2017 that The Clearing House (TCH) debuted its Real-TimePayments (RTP) scheme — a system that isn’t expected to see across-the-board adoption until 2020.
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