The Future of Payments: Exploring FedNow With the Payments Professor — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
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In this episode of Payments Pros, Keith Barnett and Carlin McCrory are joined by Pidgin's Senior Vice President of Innovation Kevin Olsen to discuss faster payments and the FedNow service. Faster payments, such as real-time...more
On October 27, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision, Michael Barr, delivered a speech at the Economics of Payments XII Conference discussing the Fed’s place in the payments system and highlighting its role as a bank supervisor and...more
On 7/20/ 23, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve system announced the launch of the FedNow Service. FedNow is a new instant payment infrastructure developed by the Federal Reserve that is available to depository...more
Our special guest is Mark Budnitz, Professor Emeritus, Georgia State University College of Law. In an article recently published in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, Prof. Budnitz explores the impact on...more
Our special guest is Professor Dan Awrey of Cornell Law School. In July 2023, the Federal Reserve launched FedNow, its instant payments system. After reviewing what FedNow is (and is not), we discuss FedNow’s design features...more
The Federal Reserve Bank announced last week that its instant payments system, FedNow, is now live with 35 banks and credit unions, which means that “[b]anks and credit unions of all sizes can sign up and use this tool to...more
The Federal Reserve launched its new real-time payments service, FedNow®, on July 20, 2023. This new instant payment rail settles consumer and business transactions through financial institutions’ Federal Reserve accounts....more
On July 20, the Federal Reserve Board launched its FedNow service for instant payments. Banks and credit unions of any size can sign up and use the tool to instantly transfer money for their customers at any time of day on...more
The Federal Reserve (Fed) has officially launched its new instant payment service, FedNow, which aims to modernize the U.S.’s payment system. As previously discussed consumers and businesses will be able to send and receive...more
In Short - The Situation: For the first time, the Economic Report of the President (the "Report") includes a chapter on digital assets....more
The Federal Reserve issued a press release announcing its plans for a July debut of FedNow, its service “to facilitate nationwide reach of instant payment services by financial institutions.” As previously discussed here, the...more
On March 15, the Federal Reserve Board announced a July launch date for its FedNow Service. Beginning the first week of April, the Fed will start formally certifying participants...more
On January 10, Federal Reserve Governor Michelle W. Bowman spoke before the Florida Bankers Association Leadership Luncheon regarding the economy and bank supervision. ...more
Technology companies in the payments space should pay close attention to the Federal Reserve’s (the Fed’s) upcoming launch of a long-awaited new payment system, the FedNow Service. The system will change the consumer payments...more
On August 29, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced that its real-time payments system, FedNow, will launch sometime between May and July of 2023. FedNow will provide a platform on which banks can build their products....more
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors narrowed the timetable for the launch of its instant payments platform—FedNow—to mid-year 2023, specifically targeting a production rollout of the service in a May to...more
In This Issue. The federal bank regulators published frequently asked questions concerning the London Interbank Offered Rate transition; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) confirmed an effective date for two...more
In January, the Federal Reserve Banks announced that over 110 organizations were participating in the FedNow Service’s pilot program. After announcing the launch would move up to 2023, and then setting forth FedNow’s message...more
On February 2, 2021, the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) announced that the launch date for its instant payments platform—FedNow—would be sooner than originally expected. The announcement narrows the delivery timeframe by a full...more
The Federal Reserve Board recently issued a Service Announcement setting forth the details of its FedNow Service, a new 24x7x365 interbank settlement service with clearing functionality to support instant payments in the...more
The Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve announced in August 2019 that it will develop a new 24x7x365 real time gross settlement (RTGS) system called FedNow. The new system will allow near-instant settlement of...more
On August 5, 2019, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Board”) proposed the development of a real-time gross settlement service (“RTGS”) called “FedNow.” The service, expected to launch in 2023 or 2024,...more