Six years after its launch, the RTP Network surpassed 500 million real-time payments on Saturday, network operator The Clearing House Payments Co. reported Monday. The announcement at least temporarily shines the spotlight back onto the current leader in real-time payments in the wake of last week’s much-anticipated launch of the …
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FedNow’s Launch Is ‘Imminent’ As Observers Prepare for a New Age in Faster Payments
The Federal Reserve could launch its FedNow real-time payments service as early as tomorrow, sources tell Digital Transactions News. The network, which has been under development for nearly four years, represents the regulator’s first effort to create a nationwide network for instant payments, a service that other countries, and at …
Read More »Car IQ Partners With Visa to Enable In-Car Payments
Car IQ Inc., a payment-platform provider for vehicles, has partnered with Visa Inc. to enable acceptance of its Car IQ Pay wallet for automobiles across the Visa network. San Francisco-based Car IQ’s wallet can be used by fleet operators, car-sharing services such as Zipcar, and ride-sharing services such as Uber. …
Read More »DoorDash Adds EBT Payments And Other Digital Transactions News briefs from 6/28/23
DoorDash announced a number of new features for its food-delivery app, including the ability to create multiple carts simultaneously and the addition of online payments funded by SNAP/EBT benefits. Alphabet Inc.’s mobile-payments app, Google Wallet, will reportedly begin supporting QR codes to trigger payments, starting in Brazil. The wallet has up to …
Read More »Jack Henry Launches Fraud Detection in Real Time for a Range of Payments
Jack Henry & Associates has launched PayrailzFraud Monitor, a real-time fraud-monitoring technology for payments. The cloud-native solution, which Jack Henry describes as an enhancement to its Payrailz platform, uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analytics to detect payments fraud as the fraud is occurring, with a scope including peer-to-peer and …
Read More »Following the U.S., ACI Launches Real Time Payments in Europe And the U.K.
ACI Worldwide Inc. has launched its Instant Pay real-time payment solution in Europe and the United Kingdom. The move comes against the backdrop of a regulatory push in Europe mandating that financial institutions across the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) countries in Europe offer instant payments under the SEPA Instant …
Read More »Relay Payments’ Rollout for Pilot Aims to Help Fleets Combat Fraud
Relay Payments, an Atlanta-based fintech, is rolling out its digital diesel-payment platform at more than 800 Pilot Travel Centers LLC locations. Pilot, which is owned by investment firm Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Pilot Corp., operates a chain of truck stops across the United States and Canada. In addition to its …
Read More »Worldpay Partners with Volt to Bring Account-to-Account Payments to Merchants
Worldpay, a unit of processor FIS Inc., has partnered with open-banking gateway and real-time payments network Volt to enable merchants to accept account-to-account payments from consumers. Through the use of application programming interfaces Volt will enable Worldpay merchants to initiate account-to-account (A2A) payments using open-banking technology. Open banking allows banks …
Read More »Cross River And Paymints Enable Real Estate Payments Via the ACH
Cross River Bank and Paymints.io Corp., a software-as-a-service platform provider for real estate payments, are teaming up to enable real-estate payments through the automated clearing house. The service will utilize the ACH rails, including same-day ACH payments, as well as wire transfers, to facilitate such payments as earnest money, cash …
Read More »Faster Payments Mean Real Supply Chain Gains
Real-time payments can bring much more flexibility—and potential profit—to businesses of all sizes. Following Covid’s chaos, that’s good news. Supply-chain chaos has forced many companies to adopt new strategies to keep goods moving and meet demands for fast funds. The financial-services industry is no exception to the growing demand for …
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