by Justin Pituch | Aug 11, 2023
Payments Post was on vacation last month; your editor was making his way from Berkeley, CA to a new home in Chicago, IL. But now that I’m settled in the Windy City, I’m happy to present this “double feature” post, covering developments in both June and July. Two major...
by Joanna Wisniecka | Aug 10, 2023
Impetus to improve cross-border payments Whether you are deep in the cross-border payments space or have sent (or tried to send) a cross-border payment, you know these are not as easy as paying for your morning coffee or sending money to a local friend for last...
by Justin Pituch | Aug 3, 2023
FedNow – the Federal Reserve’s new instant payment service – went live earlier this summer, and it could signal big changes ahead for B2B payments. Why? It comes down to data. B2B payments are rife with data challenges. In my last post, I described that the funds...
by Payments Views | May 4, 2023
Welcome back to Payments Post. Last month’s edition was all about banks; this month’s is about “paying by bank”. Or to be a bit more semantically precise, account-to-account (A2A) payments. We were particularly interested in Visa’s Visa+ initiative, iDEAL’s apparent...
by Elizabeth McQuerry | Apr 18, 2023
Today’s U.S. faster payments market is not the one we envisioned. In market for five-plus years now, RTP® and Zelle® laid the foundation of faster payments in the country but, as with most new payment systems, challenges inhibit adoption. Volumes in both...
