payments infrastructure

Peru Taps Vocalink In Payments System Overhaul
Peru Taps Vocalink In Payments System Overhaul
December 13, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Real-time payments is a goal in Peru, as the automated clearing house there links with Vocalink. Retailers want real-time transactions, too, and SWIFT continues to broaden...

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SIA’s Third-Party Approach To RTGS
SIA’s Third-Party Approach To RTGS
December 05, 2018  |  Faster Payments

It's a daunting challenge for a country to create its own real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system, much less seamlessly migrate to it. However, third-party infrastructure...

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Third Parties Help Central Banks Ride RTP Rails
Third Parties Help Central Banks Ride RTP Rails
December 04, 2018  |  Faster Payments

The uptake of faster payment systems keeps going up — and up, and up. In fact, the number of Same Day ACH transactions rose by...

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SWIFT X-Border Payments Test ‘Instant’ Success?
SWIFT X-Border Payments Test ‘Instant’ Success?
October 25, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

SWIFT says its global payments innovation (gpi) payments test across borders has been a success. Elsewhere, payments system improvement initiatives are underway, notably in the...

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Want To Win With Payment Terminals? Get Intimate.
Want To Win With Payment Terminals? Get Intimate.
October 19, 2018  |  POS Innovation

In a sense, the ongoing battle for point-of-sale supremacy involves intimacy. Yes, intimacy. Maybe a diner prefers to have the waiter bring the payment terminal...

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SWIFT Pre-Validates, Singapore Eyes Mobile Payments Push
SWIFT Pre-Validates, Singapore Eyes Mobile Payments Push
September 20, 2018  |  Mobile Payments

Amid an embrace of mobile payments and a push toward consumer choice, sometimes payments infrastructure must change. This week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore said...

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Today In Data: Healthier Systems, Healthier People
Today In Data: Healthier Systems, Healthier People
August 02, 2018  |  Today In Data

Healthcare is a massive market in the United States – the insurance industry alone is valued in the trillions of dollars. And yet, as Collective Health Co-founder and...

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The Payments Known Unknowns/Unknown Unknowns Battleground
The Payments Known Unknowns/Unknown Unknowns Battleground
January 25, 2018  |  Innovation

Long ago, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that “There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that...

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Commanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
Commanders In Chief: For Payments Innovation, Look Beyond The Pipes
August 17, 2017  |  Payment Methods

It’s been said that change is the only constant in, well, you name it. The aphorism holds especially true for payments, an industry in which technology...

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