By moving to real-time payments, US banks will enhance their service as well as generate cost efficiencies and higher revenues, writes Darryl Proctor When the subject of US banking comes up, Wall Street, innovative multi-billion-dollar deals, and cutting-edge technology might come to mind. The reality, however, is a bit different. …

As the U.S. payments system collectively ambles toward real-time payments, proponents will have to ensure its benefits outweigh those of existing expedited payments options. That’s one recommendation from the “Justifying Real-Time Payments in the United States” report released Tuesday by Maynard, Mass.-based Mercator Advisory Group Inc. The report examines the …

As the U.S. payments industry prepares to adopt real-time payments, supporters are readying their services. The latest entry is the duo of Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) and The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC, which announced Tuesday an incubator in which banks and credit unions can take their first …

Real-time payments have existed in various models for a long time. In fact, they’re probably most familiar to consumers as card payments, something that has been embedded in consumer culture for decades. However, in the United States, the development of real-time payments has lagged behind some areas of the world, a …

With two key announcements this week, The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC has brought the finish line much closer in its run to build a U.S. real-time payments system. While the New York City-based company has not set a date for completion, senior executives told Digital Transactions News Tuesday TCH …

The clearXchange payments service owned by five of the nation’s six largest banks on Monday announced a real-time payments service that includes not only its original person-to-person payments franchise but also business-to-consumer payments. Mike Kennedy, chief executive of San Francisco-based clearXchange, tells Digital Transactions News that the system is live …

In its latest gambit to commercialize instant payment settlement, Dwolla Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a service that will let users pay online merchants using credit rather than their own money. The service, which the Des Moines, Iowa-based alternative-payment processor is calling simply “Credit,” is intended to accelerate progress toward faster …

EMTransfer LLC, a real-estate cash-management platform provider, has teamed up with KeyBank to bring real-time payments to the real-estate industry through The Clearing House Payments Co.’s RTP network. Using application programming interfaces from KeyBank, EMTransfer can connect parties involved in the real-estate closing process, such as title insurance and escrow …

Citizens Financial Group is partnering with Paymentus Corp., a Charlotte, N.C., provider of bill-payment processing, to offer real-time electronic bill payment and money-transfer services for retail banking customers nationwide. Citizens will be rolling out Paymentus’s Bill Center and Loan Payments products. Bill Center provides users with a view of their bills …

The Clearing House, EBA Clearing, a provider of pan-European payment-infrastructure technology, and financial-messaging specialist SWIFT have taken the next step in making their planned real-time cross-border payments pilot a reality. The three companies announced late Thursday that the technology piece of the puzzle is ready. This includes technical messaging between …