Find out How Industry Collaboration Leads to Progress in our Latest Webinars
We are hosting two webinars that discuss how industry collaboration over the last year has led to substantial progress on the initiatives outlined in Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System (PDF). The first webinar will give you an overview of the industry progress made over the past year, while …
Site Navigation Update—Access to Information You Need to Stay Engaged
You may notice some changes to our site navigation today. We made updates to better align information you need to stay engaged with our progress toward the five desired outcomes outlined in the Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System (PDF) paper. Our navigation now includes sections around Faster Payments, …
Calling All Faster Payment Innovators – The Faster Payments Capability Showcase is now Open!
In our previous blog, we had a call-out asking for payment innovators to share with us innovations for making payments faster. Several of you let us know you had something in the works! Now is your chance to display your capabilities to the Faster Payments Task Force and your industry …
Calling All Faster Payment Solutions Innovators
Are you one of or do you know the best and brightest working on capabilities aimed to make payments faster? Capabilities that not only improve speed but prove that faster really is better and can be secure? The Faster Payments Task Force is interested in learning about your cutting-edge innovations …
Learn About the Effectiveness Criteria
As outlined in the Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System (PDF), the Faster Payments Task Force was established earlier this summer with the objective of identifying and evaluating approach(es) for implementing a safe, ubiquitous, faster payments capability within the United States. The Faster Payments Task Force spent the last several …
Todd Aadland Named Payments Security Strategy Leader
We are pleased to announce that Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Senior Vice President Todd Aadland has been appointed as the Payments Security Strategy Leader. In his new role, Todd’s responsibilities will include chairing the Secure Payments Task Force and leading the Federal Reserve System’s activities aimed at addressing fraud …
It’s Official: Sean Rodriguez is the Federal Reserve’s new Faster Payments Strategy Leader
Today the Federal Reserve announced the appointment of Sean Rodriguez as the new Faster Payments Strategy Leader. Sean, a senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, will be tasked with leading activities aimed at identifying effective approaches for implementing a safe, ubiquitous, faster payments capability in the …
Werkema on his new role as Payments Strategy Director
In an announcement (PDF) on May 29, 2015, the Federal Reserve named Gordon Werkema as the new Payments Strategy Director tasked with leading the major payment system improvement initiatives outlined in the Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System (PDF) paper. Werkema’s resume makes it easy to see why he …