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52 Monday Conversations About Payments In 2019
52 Monday Conversations About Payments In 2019
December 30, 2019  |  Karen Webster

Mondays have a bad reputation, and that’s understandable. The magic of the weekend is fading into memory, and sometimes even the strongest coffee has a...

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Top News In Payments: Amazon Nixes FedEx Ground For Prime; Paris Strikes Drive 30 Pct Drop In Retail Sales
Top News In Payments: Amazon Nixes FedEx Ground For Prime; Paris Strikes Drive 30 Pct...
December 17, 2019  |  News

In today’s top payments news, Amazon tells sellers they can no longer use FedEx Ground for Prime shipments, and Paris retailers suffer massive sales dips...

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Google Offers Advice To The Fed On FedNow
Google Offers Advice To The Fed On FedNow
December 17, 2019  |  News

Google sent a letter to the Federal Reserve, asking the U.S. central bank to consider modeling FedNow after the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) framework used in...

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US Faster Payments Council Expands With ACI Worldwide
US Faster Payments Council Expands With ACI Worldwide
November 21, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Membership in the U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC) is growing with the addition of ACI Worldwide, as the electronic payments and banking solution provider announced...

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FTC Head: Fed Needs Real-Time Payments Mechanism
FTC Head: Fed Needs Real-Time Payments Mechanism
November 08, 2019  |  Faster Payments

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Rohit Chopra wrote a letter to the Federal Reserve saying projects like Libra (Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency) illustrate the need for...

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To Accelerate Payments, Mix Rails Or Nix Rails?
To Accelerate Payments, Mix Rails Or Nix Rails?
November 05, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Jack Henry Associates announced last week that it has on-boarded an additional 15 financial institutions to The Clearing House’s RTP network in the latest sign...

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B2B Cross-Border Payments Are Speeding Up
B2B Cross-Border Payments Are Speeding Up
October 24, 2019  |  Payment Methods

Cross-border payments still present challenges, but the landscape is changing rapidly.  Swift recently announced that its gpi service can integrate with domestic real-time systems to...

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Top News In Payments: House Committee Holds RTP Hearing; DoorDash Reveals May Data Breach
Top News In Payments: House Committee Holds RTP Hearing; DoorDash Reveals May Data Breach
September 27, 2019  |  News

Today in the payments news roundup, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Task Force on Financial Technology held a hearing to talk about the...

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Congress Presses Fed On Real-Time Payments Plan
Congress Presses Fed On Real-Time Payments Plan
September 27, 2019  |  B2B Payments

The Federal Reserve’s buildup to faster payments innovation came to a head in August when it announced FedNow, its proposed real-time payments infrastructure under the...

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