The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments system is open to all depository institutions with no volume discounts and with a model that will lead to lower pricing as the system reaches scale, TCH President and CEO Jim Aramanda said today at the ABA Payments Forum in Washington.
As promised in March, the Clearing House today named two community bankers to the Real-Time Payments Business Committee. The committee provides input and guidance to the RTP network, a new real-time core payments system operated by TCH.
The American Bankers Association announced today that it has hired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau veteran Dan Smith to serve as executive director of its Card Policy Council.
The U.S. Faster Payments council—an industry-led coalition dedicated to driving faster payments innovation and adoption—has announced that ABA SVP Steve Kenneally has been elected to a two-year term on its board.
ABA, its transaction banking subsidiary BAFT and other industry trade associations today urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to continue permitting depository institutions to provide estimates of pricing information in remittance transfer disclosures where the exact amounts cannot reasonably be determined.
The Clearing House today released a set of eight “business principles” that will govern the operation of its RTP network, a new real-time core payments system.
Fifty percent of first-time person-to-person payments users are aged 45 or older, according to survey data released today by Early Warning Services.
In a study evaluating small businesses’ satisfaction with merchant services providers, J.D. Power found that banks outperformed nonbank fintech firms and scale processors.
U.S. fast food chain Wendy’s last week announced a $50 million settlement with financial institutions that suffered losses during a data breach that ran from October 2015 through June 2016.
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