Faster Payments

Faster Payments
Citi: Faster Payments Help Treasurers Extract ‘Last Drop’ of Liquidity From Financial Ecosystems
August 13, 2024

Corporate treasurers once were relegated to the back office, manipulating spreadsheets, preparing audits, handing printed reports off to more senior management — the folks charting the company’s course ahead. But as Ambrish Bansal, global head of Liquidity and Cash Concentration Products, for the Citi Treasury...

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Property Management Report Shows Over Half of Tenants Pay Rent Online
August 09, 2024

In the expansive rental market, where more than 34% of Americans make monthly payments, traditional methods like paper checks and wire transfers are proving inefficient. Despite billions flowing from tenants to landlords, outdated payment systems cause delays and frustration. As economic pressures mount and tenant...

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Galileo Says Wire Transfers Go Big and Go Digital With New APIs
August 07, 2024

If you were looking for another reason to appreciate core banking infrastructure, here it is. The buzz within the payments arena may be about instant payments, where we are and where we’re headed with the FedNow® Service now a year old. But as Galileo Financial...

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Will Earned Wage Access Unlock FedNow Sender Adoption?
July 30, 2024

One year on, FedNow and instant payments are seeing a groundswell of interest and intention to speed up funds paid out to individuals. Taking stock of the July 2023 launch of the central bank’s instant payment rail, Jill Capicchioni, product director of payments at NCR...

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QIB Adds Request to Pay to Instant Payments Service
July 22, 2024

Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has added a “request payment” feature to its instant payment service. The new feature, announced Monday (July 22), lets customers request a payment from a registered user on its Fawran — Arabic for “instantly” — service through the bank’s mobile app. “As part of QIB’s...

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RTP Network Transaction Value Leaps to $55B in Q2 as Businesses Sign On
July 10, 2024

The RTP network set records in terms of both the number of transactions and the value of payments it enabled in the second quarter. The instant payments system operated by The Clearing House allowed consumers and businesses to send 82 million transactions valued at $55...

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Most US Consumers Would Pay a Fee to Get Instant Refunds and Rebates
June 24, 2024

Overpayment disbursements — rebates, rewards, refunds, etc. — may not come to mind when considering a consumers’ overall cash flow, but, when these overpayments are issued, consumers want them quickly. Only about 71% of consumers receive some form of refund disbursements, with the average payout...

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5 Big Ideas: Making the Case for Instant Payments
June 19, 2024

In recent years, instant, P2P payments have seen a surge in adoption, emerging as a popular method for consumers to receive funds and make personal transactions and purchases. At the same time, smaller businesses have gravitated toward instant payments because they appreciate the speed, convenience...

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Citi Adds Real-Time Funding to Treasury Offerings
June 10, 2024

Citi introduced Real-Time Funding (RTF), part of its real-time treasury solutions for corporate customers. “Citi RTF enables the automated movement of funds between cross-border accounts based on predefined rules set by the client, helping them ensure that cash is available when and where it’s needed,”...