Faster Payments May Be Forced on the U.S. by International Pressure
Faster payments are distant dream in the U.S., but pressures from outside the nation's borders could bring them sooner than ...
Tag: Federal Reserve
Fed Looks Overseas for the Future of Payments
The Federal Reserve is planning to update the existing payments infrastructure, but face several limitations.
Fed Gives Details of Faster Payments Roadmap, Due This Fall
The Federal Reserve has been working aggressively to upgrade the U.S. payments system, and will release its roadmap this fall, ...
Fed Payments Panel Advocates Faster Payments
It seems ACH is too slow even for some bankers. Payments in the US lag behind much of the world ...
Atlanta Fed Hits Wrong Note on Payment Security
A blog from the Atlanta Fed implies that consumers are negligent in their payment security practices. The opposite appears to ...
Cash Is Still King
There are between 60 million and 100 million cash-preferring consumers in the U.S. That’s about the population of the nation’s ...
Should Banks White-Label Bitcoins?
An 1827 banknote from a New Orleans bank. Note the prominent "Cinq," meaning five. Some historians believe that ten-dollar bills ...
How Bitcoins Could Revolutionize Global Payments — Forever
Is the bitcoin hype merited? On Monday, bitcoins took the financial world by storm, as the value of a bitcoin soared ...
Bank Partnerships with Startups Will Be Key in Mobile Wallet Wars, Fed Says
Features or benefits will trump the technology in defining success for mobile wallets and partnerships between FIs and and startups will play a key ...
Fed Publishes Interactive Bank Failure Map
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has published an interactive map of bank failures since 2007. The map allows ...
