Faster Payments Council Blog

The FPC Cross-Border Payments Work Group, sponsored by Mastercard, developed this report examining the end-to-end cross-border payment journey through the lens of interoperability. It explores why advances in faster payments, ISO 20022 adoption, and ...

The FPC Cross-Border Payments Work Group, in collaboration with the FPC Digital Assets Work Group, have developed this report that examines how GENIUS Act-compliant stablecoins could be used to improve cross-border payment processes and compares stab...

This report published by the FPC Cross-Border Payments Work Group, sponsored by Mastercard, explores the most pressing challenges facing B2B cross-border payments and practical strategies for addressing them. While cross-border B2B transactions remai...

This research report, developed by the FPC’s Cross-Border Payments Work Group, sponsored by Mastercard, explores how ISO 20022 messaging is enabling smarter, faster, and more inclusive cross-border payments. The report highlights three use cases: buy...

The FPC Digital Assets Work Group published the third in a series of blogs that map out how digital assets relate to the financial services industry, focusing specifically on payments made with digital funds. This latest post discusses the cross-poll...

Developed jointly by the FPC Financial Inclusion and Cross-Border Payments Work Groups, this bulletin addresses critical issues surrounding financial inclusion and cross-border payments. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current lan...

The Practicalities of Cross-Border Payments in a Faster Payments World research report builds on the FPC’s previous white paper, Cross-Border Faster Payments, which focused on use cases and user expectations for cross-border faster payments....

Developed by the FPC Cross-Border Payments Work Group, this series of Bulletins is designed to educate the payments industry on the developments of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and their effect on cross-border faster payments....

The FPC Cross-Border Payments Work Group Bulletin.02 presents a simple cross-border correspondent banking payment flow model as a guidepost, discusses basic money movement flow to provide context into how cross-border funds move, and raises unanswere...

Developed by the FPC Cross-Border Payments Work Group, this first edition of the Work Group’s Bulletin is focused on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and their effect on cross-border faster payments. The series of Bulletins is designed to educ...

As faster payments continue to mature, the conversation is shifting from why organizations should adopt them to how they can maximize their value. Financial institutions and businesses are looking beyond implementation towards return on investment, o...

As we reach the midpoint of 2026, one thing is clear: faster payments continue to gain momentum across the U.S. payments ecosystem. What began as a vision for immediate, seamless, secure money movement is increasingly becoming a true everyday realit ...