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Payment Trends in 2024

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This edition of Fintech Flash identifies key issues we anticipate will impact the payments industry in 2024. First, the payments regulatory landscape continues to evolve, with a number of proposed rulemakings published by the...more

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The Future of Payments: Exploring FedNow With the Payments Professor — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast

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In this episode of Payments Pros, Keith Barnett and Carlin McCrory are joined by Pidgin's Senior Vice President of Innovation Kevin Olsen to discuss faster payments and the FedNow service. Faster payments, such as real-time...more

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FedNow Is Live!

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On 7/20/ 23, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve system announced the launch of the FedNow Service. FedNow is a new instant payment infrastructure developed by the Federal Reserve that is available to depository...more

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FedNow Instant Payments Service Launches; GAO Recommends Oversight of Crypto Assets; SEC, CFTC, DOJ Continue Crypto Enforcement;...

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U.S. Central Bank Launches Instant Payment Service - A recent press release by the U.S. central bank announced that “its new system for instant payments, the FedNow® Service, is now live.” According to the press release,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

FedNow Is Live!

The Federal Reserve Bank announced last week that its instant payments system, FedNow, is now live with 35 banks and credit unions, which means that “[b]anks and credit unions of all sizes can sign up and use this tool to...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: July 2023

The Federal Reserve has announced that its FedNowSM Service, a new interbank settlement service with clearing functionality to support instant payments, went live on July 20 with 35 early-adopting banks and credit unions. The...more

McGlinchey Stafford

FedNow®: A Payment Rail is Born

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The Federal Reserve launched its new real-time payments service, FedNow®, on July 20, 2023. This new instant payment rail settles consumer and business transactions through financial institutions’ Federal Reserve accounts....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Fed officially launches FedNow instant payment service

On July 20, the Federal Reserve Board launched its FedNow service for instant payments. Banks and credit unions of any size can sign up and use the tool to instantly transfer money for their customers at any time of day on...more

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FedNow Goes Live, Addressing Need for Speed in Banking

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The Federal Reserve (Fed) has officially launched its new instant payment service, FedNow, which aims to modernize the U.S.’s payment system. As previously discussed consumers and businesses will be able to send and receive...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Federal Reserve Launches FedNow Real-Time Payment Service

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Consumers and businesses stand to benefit from rapid access to funds at any time when routed through participating financial institutions. On July 20, 2023, the Federal Reserve announced the long-awaited launch of its...more

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July Launch Announced for the Federal Reserve’s FedNow Nationwide Payment System

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The Federal Reserve issued a press release announcing its plans for a July debut of FedNow, its service “to facilitate nationwide reach of instant payment services by financial institutions.” As previously discussed here, the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Fed to launch FedNow in July

On March 15, the Federal Reserve Board announced a July launch date for its FedNow Service. Beginning the first week of April, the Fed will start formally certifying participants...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

July Launch of FedNow Service

This week the Federal Reserve reported that its instant payment service, FedNow, will be available for all participating financial institutions to use starting in July 2023....more

Miller Nash LLP

FedNow—The Fed Announces Launch Timeline and Pricing

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The Federal Reserve’s long-awaited new payment system, FedNow, will be here and available to financial institutions sooner than we expected. In fact, many organizations have already been participating in the FedNow Pilot...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Money in 2023: What Tech Companies Need to Know About Instant Payments and FedNow

Technology companies in the payments space should pay close attention to the Federal Reserve’s (the Fed’s) upcoming launch of a long-awaited new payment system, the FedNow Service. The system will change the consumer payments...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Is the U.S. Payments System Failing Business and Consumers? A Discussion with Special Guest Dan Awrey, Professor of Law, Cornell...

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After discussing the core features of the U.S. payments systems, we look at how those features have impacted the experience of U.S. business and consumers and why Prof. Awrey believes they have resulted in a payments system...more

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Federal Reserve Invites Public Comment on Proposed Principles for Large Banking Organizations to Manage Climate-Related Financial...

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Regulatory Developments - Federal Reserve Invites Public Comment on Proposed Principles for Large Banking Organizations to Manage Climate-Related Financial Risks - On December 2, the Federal Reserve announced that it...more

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FRB Action Brings Lower Costs to Merchants for Online Debit Card Transactions

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The purpose of the Durbin Amendment was to lower merchants’ costs of accepting debit cards for customer payments. Up to now, because of technology limitations, online merchants were not provided lower cost debit card...more

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Payment Systems: Federal Reserve Board Adopts Final Rule to Amend Regulation II

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Our Payment Systems Team details how the Federal Reserve’s Regulation II Final Rule clarifies many of the interpretive concerns from the May 2021 notice of proposed rulemaking and narrows the substantive concerns raised by...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - October 2022 - Can, and Should, the U.S. Government Develop a CBDC System?

In response to the Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets issued on March 9, 2022, both the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Treasury Department (Treasury) have...more

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FedNow Set for 2023 Summer Launch

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On August 29, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced that its real-time payments system, FedNow, will launch sometime between May and July of 2023. FedNow will provide a platform on which banks can build their products....more

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Fed narrows timetable for FedNow launch

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Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors narrowed the timetable for the launch of its instant payments platform—FedNow—to mid-year 2023, specifically targeting a production rollout of the service in a May to...more

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CFPB Publishes Circular Confirming Failure to Safeguard Consumer Data Could Be Unfair in Violation of CFPA

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In This Issue: ..The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2022-04 (Circular) in relation to safeguarding consumer data under the Consumer Financial Protection Act...more

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Federal Reserve Proposes Tiered Framework for Evaluating ‘Master Account’ Applications

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On March 1, 2022, the Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) proposed a new framework for evaluating “master account” applications for direct access to the Fed’s payment system. The proposal builds upon the Fed’s original proposal from...more

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Treasury Department’s FSOC Acknowledges Climate Change as Threat to Financial Stability

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In This Issue. The Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) issued a report acknowledging climate change as threat to financial stability; Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman advocates for...more

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