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A P2P Payments Adoption Upswell Is Looming in 2017, According to a BofA Survey

Consumers of all ages appear to be embracing person-to-person payments, finds the Bank of America Trends in Consumer Mobility Report released Thursday. The report, which surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. adults who have a banking account and a smart phone, found that 36% of all respondents use a P2P payments …

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Slow on the Uptake for Faster Payments

The subject of faster payments has been in the news almost continually for months now, but apparently awareness of the subject, and in some cases adoption, remains lower than expected among the financial institutions that will be depended on to implement speedier settlement. That’s if survey results released in April …

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Ninth Annual Field Guide to Alternative Payments

The increasing commercialization of mobile payments is showing up in a proliferation of so-called Pays from a bevy of banks, tech companies, and merchants. Time was, a cutting-edge alternative-payment service involved entering card or bank-account details into a branded interface on a laptop computer. Mobile payments were nascent, held back …

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Ninth Annual Field Guide to Alternative Payments

The increasing commercialization of mobile payments is showing up in a proliferation of so-called Pays from a bevy of banks, tech companies, and merchants. Time was, a cutting-edge alternative-payment service involved entering card or bank-account details into a branded interface on a laptop computer. Mobile payments were nascent, held back …

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Slow on the Uptake for Faster Payments

The subject of faster payments has been in the news almost continually for months now, but apparently awareness of the subject, and in some cases adoption, remains lower than expected among the financial institutions that will be depended on to implement speedier settlement. That’s if survey results released in April …

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Despite Gobs of Publicity, Faster Payments Don’t Register With a Lot of Banks

The subject of faster payments has been in the news almost continually for months now, but apparently awareness of the subject, and in some cases adoption, remains lower than expected among the financial institutions that will be depended on to implement speedier settlement. That’s if survey results released this week …

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Nearing the Finish Line

The Fed will soon release its long-awaited report on faster payments. Will it help the U.S. catch up with other countries? They’ve been slow in coming, but faster electronic payments soon will be arriving in the U.S. The upside lies in the phrase “faster payments,” with various proposals calling for …

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With P2P Rivalry Heating up, Google Brings Gmail Payments to Its Android Platform

Alphabet Inc.’s Google Inc. unit converted its Android-based Google Wallet into a peer-to-peer payment service two years ago, and on Tuesday Google extended that service to Gmail, its popular email application. With the new feature, Gmail users can send and request money on Android phones, much as they have been …

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ACI Worldwide Plugs Jack Henry Into New Faster-Payments Systems

If creating faster-payment systems is like putting pieces of a puzzle together, another piece was added Wednesday when payment technology provider ACI Worldwide Inc. announced that processor Jack Henry & Associates Inc. will use ACI’s UP Immediate Payments service to connect its community-bank and credit-union clients to the new real-time …

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Circling the Payments Industry

Circle Internet Financial has moved beyond Bitcoin to social payments. But its ambitions don’t stop there. Bitcoin remains a financial-services buzzword. But it’s becoming more and more clear that the cryptocurrency will be relegated to back-office processes outside the consumer’s awareness. Seeing this movement, Jeremy Allaire, founder and chief executive …

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