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Why the U.S. has reached a real-time tipping point

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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.

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Mastercard and The Clearing House deepen their partnership to zero in on new instant payments applications 

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Mastercard recently expanded collaboration with The Clearing House (TCH), with the shared goal of propelling the adoption of instant payments. This extended partnership will focus on integrating additional instant payment use cases across a range of payment flows for consumers, businesses, and governments.

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

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Waterhouse said that in terms of TCH’s own initiatives in getting banks on board the ongoing effort to make RTP ubiquitous across the entirety of the U.S. is actually a two-step process: connecting the core banking systems of these FIs to the TCH network, and then getting the banks to make it a part of their service offering.

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Real-Time Payments Move Past Early Adopters

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And beyond TCH and RTP, the Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time payments solution looms. But Ranta added that when it comes to the consumer, the critical use cases that could spur wider adoption aren’t there quite yet. "We We have not seen the use cases or the digital overlay services rolled out,” he noted.

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TCH’s Waterhouse: Real-Time Payments’ 2021 Focus Is On Smarter, Safer

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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.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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That’s the talk track now from the Fed , which a week ago today announced its plans to build and operate a new set of real-time rails, using accelerated access to employer paychecks as its launch use case. Ironically, perhaps, the ACH network’s first direct deposit use case was the U.S. Slowing Innovation.

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The Clearing House’s Strategies To Drive RTP Uptake

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Such systems can offer everything from swifter settlement times to easy payment status tracking, but such benefits require widespread adoption. Consumers and businesses do not want to use new payment networks unless they believe others are already using them, creating a chicken-and-egg problem.

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