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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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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