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Faster Payments Resources

Welcome to the Faster Payments Knowledge Center – a comprehensive suite of resources, tools, news, and research to further faster payments learning. The Knowledge Center is a one-stop repository of all things faster payments designed for anyone seeking more information as they consider implementation.

FPC Members-Only Resources: additional faster payments resources are available in the members-only section of the website under Work Group Deliverables. Please login here to access the following documents:

The Economic Benefits of an Independent, Interoperable Directory for Faster Payments

Developed by the FPC Directory Models Work Group, this white paper looks at several areas by which a directory may establish economic benefits, both incremental revenue and cost savings, and attempts to quantify those benefits. LOGIN

Faster Payments Glossary of Terms

Developed by the Education & Awareness Work Group, the Faster Payments Glossary of Terms includes a list of over 180 well-defined terms that are most relevant to the faster payments industry. LOGIN

Consumer End-User Safety & Security FAQs

Developed by the FPC Safety & Security Work Group, the Consumer End-User FAQs resource serves as a tool that financial institutions – and service providers – can use to educate their consumer customers about the differences between faster payments and traditional payments. LOGIN

Transparency Guidelines for PSPs – Business Transactions

The FAQ-style chart helps service providers formulate disclosures, marketing materials, and notifications for business transactions to support increased transparency around transaction characteristics, fees, and the resolution of errors and disputes. LOGIN

Why Interoperability is Important for Faster Payments

Jun 23, 2021

Developed in partnership with Glenbrook Partners, this research report explores why interoperability is important to industry stakeholders. ...

Cross-Border Faster Payments

Jun 14, 2021

Developed by the FPC Cross-Border Payments Work Group, this white paper addresses use case and experience requirements for cross-border faster payments, particularly along the dimensions of speed, cost, ubiquity, transparency, and risk....

Prime Time for Real-Time 2021

Mar 30, 2021

ACI Worldwide’s Prime Time for Real-Time 2021 report explores how different markets are adopting real-time payments and what barriers they're overcoming, and see emerging innovations in the ecosystem....

The State of Play in U.S. Faster Payments

Jan 26, 2021

Developed by the FPC Network Committee, the State of Play in U.S. Faster Payments industry report provides an update on the market for instant and immediate payments services in the United States...

2021 Real-Time Payments Market Insight Report

Dec 15, 2020

Levvel’s 2021 Real-Time Payments Market Insight Report explores RTP for modernizing business processes. This report provides a guide to the many use cases of RTP for businesses....

AFP Payments Guide: The Changing Face of Cross-Border Payments

Dec 09, 2020

Cross-border payments are vital to the overall global payments infrastructure. But while new initiatives and payments technology innovations have emerged in recent years to move cross-border payments forward, multiple obstacles remain in place and ne...

2020 Faster Payments Barometer

Dec 07, 2020

The 2020 Faster Payments Barometer is the 2nd annual study designed to gauge faster payments advancements in the United States. Results from the 2020 survey revealed how respondents are using faster payments today, the challenges facing their organi...

Accelerating The Real-Time Payments Demand Curve

Nov 19, 2020

Accelerating The Real-Time Payments Demand Curve: What Banks Need To Know About What Consumers Want And Need, a PYMNTS and Alacriti collaboration, examines consumers’ understanding of real-time payments and the methods they use for different types of...

Flavors of Fast 2020

Oct 16, 2020

FIS has released its Flavors of Fast 2020 report. It’s packed with exclusive insights from industry insiders and bold predictions for how faster payments will continue to evolve, along with their annual analysis of notable movements on real-time sche...

Examining Faster Payments Fraud Prevention

Jul 29, 2020

Developed by the FPC Fraud Information Sharing Work Group, this research white paper takes a fresh look at the current fraud themes and trends, and approaches for mitigating these risks in a faster payments environment. ...

Faster Payments and the Potential to Transform Consumer Bill Pay

Jul 21, 2020

Developed in partnership with Glenbrook, this research white paper takes a close look at the two main models that serve the consumer bill pay industry today: biller direct model and bank bill pay model. The paper also explores how Request for Payment...

Leveraging ISO 20022: Models for Early Adopters

Jul 13, 2020

Our friends at 20022 Labs recently released a free discussion paper titled "Leveraging ISO 20022: An early-adopters’ guide to data rich payments.” It’s a great resource to help any FPC member think through how they can capture the benefits of ISO 200...