The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), along with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, recently proposed new rules related to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and anti-money laundering regulations requiring financial institutions to collect and report information related to international transfers. The proposed changes would lower the threshold requiring when this information is
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Nacha, who enables Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments, has approved eight amendments to their Operating Rules focused on infrastructure around improving Same Day ACH and providing a framework for authorizing consumer ACH payments that can be applied to the growing channels and technologies consumers want to use to make digital payments. Additional new rules pertain
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Bank account authentication, funds confirmation and KYC provider GIACT will be acquired by Refinitiv, a financial technology and data vendor owned by London Stock Exchange Group. GIACT’s data and technology will complement Refinitiv’s due diligence, risk and compliance services while broadening the company’s digital fraud prevention and identity services. The acquisition of GIACT both strengthens
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Guest Post Written by: Daryn Griggs, Co-Founder, Payshield, Certified eCommerce Fraud Professional The events of COVID 19 have seen a massive increase in online shopping around the world including people who have never shopped online before. Naturally with an increase in online shopping comes an increase in online fraud, and the biggest fraud increase? Friendly Fraud!
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The U.S. Central Bank will embark on its biggest investment in payments since becoming an ACH operator more than forty years ago. FedNow will be an interbank real-time gross settlement service (RTGS) with integrated clearing. It will support 24/7 real-time transfers of up to $25,000 between any banks in the U.S. and will be available
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SWIFT, the financial messaging and payment company based in Belgium, is developing a global network for facilitating cross-border bank account based payments with 73 financial institutions already on board. Trials for B2B payments are already underway, including a portal for tracking when payments are confirmed and cleared. The participating banks account for 75 percent of
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In early December the Electronic Payments Association, alternatively known as NACHA, released more details on their proposal for a same-day ACH payments system while issuing a request for comments submitted by early February. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve is providing a multiyear roadmap for facilitating real-time payments and The Clearing House, a trade group representing large
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FIS Inc. announced the acquisition of Brussels-based payment technology company Clear2Pay for €375 ($493.3) million in early September. While the company announced the investment would bolster global payment capabilities and enhance enterprise payments solutions, the most interesting aspect of the acquisition may be the fact that FIS offers a real-time funds transfer service called PayNet
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Dwolla, an alternative cash based payment network, enables consumers to make retail payments and peer-to-peer transfers over their hybrid ACH network. In June Dwolla launched their FiSync network which enables real-time bank transfers to Dwolla accounts, meaning users can connect participating bank accounts through their Dwolla account to make purchases in-store and online or transfer
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