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Faster Payments
B2B ACH Payments up 11.7% in Q1
April 17, 2023

The dollar value of payments made by Same Day ACH have nearly doubled compared to a year ago. During the first quarter, the value of these same-day payments leapt about 95% year over year to $565.3 billion and the number of payments increased about 21%...

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Plaid Adds Instant Payouts to Its Transfer Tool
April 13, 2023

Open banking platform Plaid says it is giving users the ability to make instant payouts. The company announced Thursday (April 13) that it was adding an instant payout feature to the Plaid Transfer product. This means users can make transactions through the RTP (real-time payments)...

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Amex and Cuscal Give Australians Faster Way to Pay Card Bills
March 23, 2023

American Express and payments firm Cuscal have teamed to help Australian customers repay charges in minutes. The partnership, announced Thursday (March 23), involves what American Express (Amex) says is the first card bill PayID service in Australia, using the country’s New Payments Platform (NPP) real-time...

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Will FedNow’s July Launch Ignite Real-Time Payments in the US?
March 17, 2023

The Federal Reserve’s FedNow real-time rail debut is imminent. Financial institutions (FIs) including banks and credit unions have been using services from Zelle to rails like the RTP Network from The Clearing House (TCH). Jim Colassano, SVP, RTP product management at The Clearing House; Meghan...

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FedNow Scheduled to Launch In July
March 16, 2023

The Federal Reserve has a launch date for its long-awaited payments service FedNow. The U.S. central bank announced Wednesday (March 15) that the service will debut in July, providing all financial institutions with an instant payments tool. “With the launch drawing near, we urge financial...

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South Africa Claims Real-Time Payments Progress With PayShap
March 13, 2023

South Africa’s central bank says the country is closer to “a more accessible national payment system.” That’s due to the Monday (March 13) launch of PayShap, which the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) describes as a “low-value, real-time rapid payment platform” designed to improve financial...

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India’s UPI Success May Chart Path for Real-Time Payments in the US
March 07, 2023

India’s United Payments Interface (UPI), the real time payments system, is showing explosive growth. And the tailwind to digital payments adoption, along with linkages to other countries’ real time network — forging an interoperable network — may prove instructive here in the states, as the...

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The Clearing House Sees Options and Uptake Fueling Growth of Instant Checkout
February 22, 2023

Instant checkout, scan-and-go and unattended retail have been buzzwords as consumers flock back to stores. Turning promise into reality is something else entirely. Peter Davey, senior vice president and head of the Innovation Lab at The Clearing House, said the path toward the ultimate, seamless...

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Twenty-Three Percent of Consumers Want Instant Insurance Claims Payouts
February 15, 2023

Instant payments are finding firm footing as way to get insurance claims paid out quickly. In the Insurance Disbursements Brief 2022, a PYMNTS and Ingo Money report, more than 2,400 consumers weighed in on the ways in which they’d want to be get their insurance...