
The Federal Reserve announced that a real-time payment service will be entering the market by 2023 or 2024. The new service is called FedNow and set to reach every bank in every community within the United States. Four considerations were mentioned by Fed governor Lael Brainard that facilitate this service, they were, “equitable access to users, payments safety, increased competition for private-sector players, and a neutral platform for innovation.” Prominent private-sector player, The Clearing House Payments Co. or (TCH), introduced its real-time payments service in 2017. Based in New York and owned by 25 banks, TCH has been working on […]
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