Real-Time Payments

Emerging real-time or instantaneous settlement of payments, e.g., FedNow.

ACI WORLDWIDE DEBUTS DIGITAL CENTRAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO FAST-TRACK REAL-TIME PAYMENTS ADOPTION

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This article describes how ACI empowers central banks with a secure central payments infrastructure to accelerate real-time payments growth.

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NEW CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY (CBDC) PARTNER PROGRAM

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A brief report on Mastercard’s announcement of a new CBDC partner program with key IT solution providers involved with blockchain, web3, and digital payments.

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HOW FEDNOW AND FASTER PAYMENTS WILL IMPACT US FINTECH

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FedNow’s promise of faster payments is not new. Aside from RTP and same-day ACH, we have seen faster payments in a number of forms: closed-loop P2P payments (Venmo, Zelle), wire transfers, stablecoins, and push-to-card. Each varies in settlement type, rail, limit, cost, push/pull capabilities, and transaction limits. This has created an ecosystem where U.S. money movement has become unnecessarily complex. In this white paper by Bessemer Venture Partners they explain that they expect to see more payment-first business models, and a new wave of fraud, and infrastructure to facilitate the patchwork of faster payments in the US.

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THE FUTURE OF ONLINE PAYMENTS: BNPL, UPI, EMBEDDED FINANCE AND MORE

$ Transfers and Digital Payments, 2023, ALL CONTENT, Jasbirs Juneja, PDF/DOC, Real-Time Payments, Redseer Strategy Consultants, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Wallets /

In this report, recent rends in the online payments ecosystem in India are discussed, from UPI and digital wallets to Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). The report also discusses how fintechs are gearing up to meet the demands of future customers.

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THE FUTURE OF INDIA’S DIGITAL PAYMENT

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In this publicly available report from Redseer Strategy Consulting, it is estimated that 85% of businesses in India will be digitally enabled by FY26. This means that a large majority of businesses in India will have embraced digital technologies and processes for their operations.

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A NEW PUSH FOR PUSH PAYMENTS

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This white paper by Mastercard explains that as real-time payments increase globally, Card-based push payments (push-to-card) enable participants to send funds directly to consumers and small businesses via their payment card accounts. Receipt of funds via a payment card, typically a debit card linked to a deposit account, makes for a seamless consumer experience,

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