Real-Time Payments

Real-Time Payments
Vsoft Teams with Pidign to Offer Real-Time Payments
August 28, 2023

Payment solutions firm VSoft says it has integrated its platform with real-time payments firm Pidgin. That integration, the company announced Monday (Aug. 28), will allow VSoft’s core processing solution Wings to facilitate real-time transaction processing through multiple payment rails, including the Federal Reserve’s new FedNow Service and The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments Network. ...

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Manufacturers See Real-Time Payments Replacing Checks
August 24, 2023

The manufacturing sector is quickly recognizing the value of real-time payments. Most manufacturers now deem real-time payments vital for business, with 61% holding this view for making payments and 65% for receiving them. PYMNTS’ latest study reveals that small manufacturers are leading the charge away...

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FedNow Is Live but Banks Face Integration Decisions
August 23, 2023

For banks eyeing what they must do to get on board the FedNow Service to meet customers’ expectations for faster payments and integrate with the first new payments rails in the United States in four decades — the challenges are numerous. Form3 Chief Operating Officer Eimear O’Connor said in an...

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Small Insurers Lag in Adopting Real-Time Payments, but Plan a 2024 Catch Up
August 17, 2023

Insurance companies are embracing real-time payments when collecting customer premiums or receiving payments from other businesses. Even though 80% of firms use real-time payments, they account for just 16% of transactions, behind automated clearing house (ACH) and wire transfers. The forecast for growth in real-time...

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Juniper Payments: FedNow Can Spur Credit Unions to ‘Reimagine’ Financial Services
August 16, 2023

Only a few weeks after launching in July, the FedNow Service promises to help transform payments, commerce and banking. But as Dr. Jorge Jimenez, president of Juniper Payments, a PSCU company, told PYMNTS in an interview, one need not look all that far to see what a re-imagining of financial services...

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92% of Healthcare Companies Plan to Embrace Real-Time Payments
August 09, 2023

FedNow is right now. And with the move into real-time payments, the stage is set for a continued embrace of faster transactions, modernizing trillion-dollar industries that have thus far been reliant on paper checks, paper invoices, and a host of inefficiencies in the mix. As...

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Pathward and Dash Solutions Debut Real-Time Payments Tool
August 02, 2023

Banking-as-a-service firm Pathward and payments company Dash Solutions are giving their partnership another five years. And with that extended partnership, the companies announced in a news release Wednesday (Aug. 2), comes a new tool: SpendIT SendIT, which lets consumer payees use or move their funds to other accounts they own....

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The Clearing House Expands Availability of Request for Payment
August 02, 2023

The Clearing House has expanded the availability of a capability that enables broker dealers, billers and suppliers to request a payment from customers and receive an instant payment in response. This Request for Payment (RfP) capability on the RTP network is now offered by several...

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Real-Time Payments Taking Hold From South Africa to Sweden
August 01, 2023

The real-time payments landscape is constantly changing. Growth in adoption and transaction volume has been measured across the continents. With the U.S. Federal Reserve’s launch of FedNow, this change seems likely to be a constant. South Korea, one of the countries this edition focuses on,...