Faster Payments Council Blog

This report, developed through a collaboration between the FPC Financial Inclusion Work Group, sponsored by ACI Worldwide and the FPC Digital Assets Work Group, examines how digital assets and digital ledger technology can address financial exclusion...

The widespread adoption of digital wallets is transforming access to a broad range of payment options for consumers and businesses, all through a secure interface. Integration of mobile phones with hardware secure elements is accelerating this trend,...

In this blog, the FPC Digital Assets Work Group (DAWG) takes a look at the role of digital ledger technology in core banking functions. Anyone who has worked for a financial institution knows that technological change within an organization can lag s...

In this blog, the FPC Digital Assets Work Group (DAWG) explores tokenized deposits, which offer the promise of significant risk reduction and automation potential to financial markets. Tokenized deposits have the potential to meaningfully drive a...

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...

The FPC Digital Assets Work Group published the second 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 benefits ...

The FPC Digital Assets Work Group published the first of a series of blogs that map out how digital assets relate to the financial services industry, focusing specifically on payments made with digital funds. ...

The widespread adoption of digital wallets is transforming access to a broad range of payment options for consumers and businesses, all through a secure interface. Integration of mobile phones with hardware secure elements is accelerating this trend,...

Anyone who has worked for a financial institution knows that technological change within an organization can lag significantly behind the pace of innovation. There is no better example than the efforts to modernize core banking platforms, which have ...

In this blog, the FPC Digital Assets Work Group (DAWG) explores tokenized deposits, which offer the promise of significant risk reduction and automation potential to financial markets. Tokenized deposits have the potential to meaningfully drive adopt...

The FPC Work Groups acknowledge there are cross pollination opportunities for real-time payments initiatives. Functions and operations that reduce the current 2–3 day payment processing and settlement time to instant funds availability are targets f...

The Faster Payments Council member, Barry Tooker wrote a piece posted on LinkedIn titled “Real-time Payments – Hang on, Not So Fast” - about his personal experiences with the sale of his house and the access to and availability of funds from that sa...