According to payments expert Andrew Boyajian, the days of not knowing the ‘where’ and ‘when’ of an international payment in its transaction journey are numbered.
As head of banking at Transferwise North America, Boyajian has peeled back and understood the larger and complex scale of payments and technological investments needed to make transactions possible.
What’s happening in U.S. payments these days? Ask the Federal Reserve. In its role as the central bank of the United States, the Fed regularly conducts studies to help policymakers, the industry and the public better understand – and improve – the U.S. payment system. The Fed recently provided new insights on payments methods and trends by publishing not one, not two, but three bellwether studies in December 2019. Here’s a roundup of this research.
The Federal Reserve recently conducted a review of the current cross-border payments landscape to better understand developments and ongoing challenges. Key findings were discussed on a January webinar entitled Go Global: A Review of Progress and Pain in Cross-Border Payments (Off-site), where nearly 700 highly engaged stakeholders attended, demonstrating rich interest in this topic.
In response to industry comments on its Federal Register notice (Off-site), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has approved modifications to the Federal Reserve Banks’ FedACH® Service, National Settlement Service (NSS) and Fedwire® Funds Service to help facilitate adoption of a later Same Day automated clearing house …
On Dec. 5, industry experts joined the Business Payments Coalition’s (BPC) webinar (Off-site) which outlines the concept of an e-Invoice interoperability framework, market challenges and benefits of addressing them and a path forward for the BPC work assessing U.S. market needs. Watch the webinar to learn more about how an …
Al Pascual has a passion for righting wrongs, so he chose banking and payments fraud as his field of practice. Yet, it’s something more than a professional interest. It’s in his blood. Growing up as the son of two NYPD detectives, law enforcement was always a topic of conversation at …
Today, the Federal Reserve System announced it has joined the U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC) (Off-site) as a founding sponsor. As a member, we’ll actively participate in the FPC’s work to facilitate faster payments in the United States, enabling Americans to securely pay anyone, anywhere, at any time with near-immediate …
On Nov. 14, 2019, Charles Evans, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, spoke at the Third Annual Fintech Conference in Philadelphia, hosted by colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. His speech focused on past, present and future innovations to improve the U.S. payment system, and the …