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 …
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 …
Federal Reserve Announces Launch of Faster and Secure Payments Task Forces
Without further ado, we are pleased to announce that the Faster Payments Task Force and Secure Payments Task Force are open for registration! For those of you who don’t know, the formation of these task forces is one of the first milestones to come out of our Strategies for Improving …
To Operate or Not To Operate…
That is the question. At least, it seems to be one of the questions swirling in industry conversations and press coverage about the faster payments strategy described in our Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System paper published two weeks ago. There are passionate industry voices on both sides of …
Federal Reserve Publishes Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System
The Federal Reserve System is pleased to release Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System, a multi-faceted plan for collaborating with payment system stakeholders to enhance the speed, safety and efficiency of the U.S. payment system. Read it here (PDF). Read the paper today, then join Kansas City Fed President …