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

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

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

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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A NEW PUSH FOR PUSH PAYMENTS

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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