Form3 news and trends

FinTech and Bank Partnerships Will Boost Open Banking in the US
Banking // March 21, 2024

Dave Scola, CEO, U.S. at Form3, said the transformation of banking and financial services is demanding collaboration between traditional banks and digital upstarts. The most notable, and long lasting, changes in consumer behavior have been spurred by the pandemic: The shift to contactless payments, and the...

Real-Time Payments Need Orchestration Layer to Solve Interoperability Gap
Faster Payments // March 11, 2024

The financial landscape is rapidly evolving in an era of faster payments, presenting a blend of opportunities and setbacks. One of the major hurdles that U.S. banks are facing today following the FedNow® Service launch stems from the lack of full interoperability between the Federal...

Banks Say Better to Be Proactive Than Reactive When Making Payments Real Time
Faster Payments // March 07, 2024

Faster payments solve many traditional pain points endemic to legacy payment methods. But although several hundred financial institutions (FIs) have signed on to the two domestic instant payment rails in the U.S., the FedNow® Service and The Clearing House RTP® real-time payments platform, observers argue that...

APIs Promise to Make Instant Payment Systems Interoperable
Faster Payments // February 08, 2024

Cory Barnes, senior product manager at Form3, told PYMNTS that instant payments can reach their full potential only when far-flung systems are truly in sync and interoperable. “The expectation with instant payments is that they are frictionless,” he said. “It’s all about the end user.”...

Interviews & Exclusives
Managed Services Give Banks End-to-End Look at Real-Time Payments 

April 05, 2024
Laura Sullivan, senior product manager at Form3, told PYMNTS in an interview that as faster payments gain ground in the United States, fraudsters are lying in wait. “Everybody feels like the scammers just have not caught up with instant payments just yet,” Sullivan said. As she noted, the RTP® Network, sponsored by The Clearing House, has been around […]

FinTech and Bank Partnerships Will Boost Open Banking in the US

March 21, 2024
Dave Scola, CEO, U.S. at Form3, said the transformation of banking and financial services is demanding collaboration between traditional banks and digital upstarts. The most notable, and long lasting, changes in...

Real-Time Payments Need Orchestration Layer to Solve Interoperability Gap

March 11, 2024
The financial landscape is rapidly evolving in an era of faster payments, presenting a blend of opportunities and setbacks. One of the major hurdles that U.S. banks are facing today...

APIs Promise to Make Instant Payment Systems Interoperable

February 08, 2024
Cory Barnes, senior product manager at Form3, told PYMNTS that instant payments can reach their full potential only when far-flung systems are truly in sync and interoperable. “The expectation with...

Quick Reads
Thought Machine and Form3 Partner on Real-Time Payment Processing 

October 23, 2023
Cloud-native banking technology company Thought Machine has partnered with cloud-native account-to-account (A2A) platform Form3 to offer banks and financial institutions an end-to-end solution for real-time payment processing.  This collaboration will add the FedNow® Service, The Clearing House’s RTP and SEPA Instant Credit Transfer connectivity to Thought Machine’s Vault Payments, a cloud-native and application programming interface (API)-enabled platform that simplifies payment processing for banks, the companies said […]

Visa Investment Helps Form3 Expand Anti-Fraud Efforts

September 12, 2023
Account-to-account (A2A) platform Form3 says Visa is a believer in its anti-fraud efforts. To that end, the payments giant has invested in the British company to help support its expansion,...

Payments Platform Form3 Wins FedNow Certification

July 27, 2023
Account-to-account payment platform Form3 says it is ready for FedNow. The company on Thursday (July 27) announced it was among the first in its industry to finish testing and certification for the Federal Reserve’s...

SumUp Selects Form3 for Access to UK Faster Payments Scheme

July 07, 2023
SumUp has partnered with Form3 to enhance its business account offering for United Kingdom customers. With this move, SumUp, a global FinTech that serves 4 million small businesses in 35 markets worldwide, will gain direct...