faster payments

Faster Payments Service (FPS) is a UK banking initiative to reduce payment times between different banks' customer accounts from the three working days that transfers take using the long-established BACS system, to typically a few seconds.

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BILL Debuts Cross-Border Instant Payments for Small Businesses
BILL Debuts Cross-Border Instant Payments for Small Businesses
September 25, 2024  |  SMBs

BILL has introduced new payment offerings for small businesses and accountants. The new capabilities, announced by the financial platform Wednesday (Sept. 25), include Local Transfer...

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WEX: How Companies Are Slashing Costs by Optimizing Business Payments
WEX: How Companies Are Slashing Costs by Optimizing Business Payments
September 24, 2024  |  B2B Payments

Choice can be both a necessity and a paralyzing paradox. Particularly in the world of business payments, finding the optimal mix of payment methods has...

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Instant Payroll Could Cut Costly Employee Turnover
Instant Payroll Could Cut Costly Employee Turnover
September 24, 2024  |  Money Mobility

Workers are growing increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of traditional payroll and outdated biweekly pay periods, especially in today’s economic climate, where many live...

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74% of Travelers View Digital Wallets as Essential Gear for Vacations
74% of Travelers View Digital Wallets as Essential Gear for Vacations
September 23, 2024  |  Mobile Wallets

The travel and hospitality sectors have long been anchored in traditional payment methods, like cash and credit cards. As consumers and employees voice their frustrations...

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Click, Pay, Done: How Embedded Payments Could Transform B2B
Click, Pay, Done: How Embedded Payments Could Transform B2B
September 20, 2024  |  B2B Payments

Digital payments aren’t just about swapping cash and paper checks for electronic methods. Amid Wednesday’s (Sept. 18) news that Brex has launched an embedded B2B payments...

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Will Walmart’s New Bank Payment Option Tip the Scales for Other Retailers?
Will Walmart’s New Bank Payment Option Tip the Scales for Other Retailers?
September 19, 2024  |  Walmart

Walmart’s scale and installed base of loyal customers may move the needle on instant payments in general, and instant bank payments specifically. PYMNTS Intelligence estimated...

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Walmart Teams With Fiserv on Instant Bank Payments
Walmart Teams With Fiserv on Instant Bank Payments
September 19, 2024  |  Faster Payments

Walmart is reportedly enhancing its pay-by-bank offering via a partnership with Fiserv. The retailer began offering pay-by-bank with Walmart Pay earlier this year, Bloomberg reported...

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Insurance Needs to Be as Digital as the Millennials and Gen Zs It Wants as Customers
Insurance Needs to Be as Digital as the Millennials and Gen Zs It Wants as...
September 17, 2024  |  Insurance

In an era where digital transformation is reshaping industries across the board, the insurance sector is no exception. One of the companies with a stake...

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57% of Americans Trust Financial Institutions to Protect Their Data
57% of Americans Trust Financial Institutions to Protect Their Data
September 12, 2024  |  Banking

Open banking, which allows third-party providers to access banking data through secure application programming interfaces (APIs), has gained momentum globally as a means to enhance...

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