As the industry’s organization dedicated to advancing faster payments, the FPC continues to play a vital role in driving the conversations that increase awareness, deepen understanding, and help turn momentum into measurable progress. And that leadership has been taking center stage during the FPC’s spring speaking engagements. Across key events, the FPC helped guide discussions on the most critical issues shaping faster payments adoption, implementation, and long-term growth.
At the Bankers’ Bank of Kansas Operations Summit, an FPC-led discussion focused on key use cases driving demand, current and projected transaction volumes, and the key trends shaping the future of instant payments, helping to further interest and enthusiasm around faster payments adoption. At EPCOR’s Spring 2026 Payments Conference, Paymentspalooza, the FPC reiterated the specific use cases that are creating the greatest value for financial institutions, as well as the specific areas where consumer demand is accelerating adoption. The discussion also outlined the factors expected to influence growth through 2028 and highlighted ways the industry can continue to advance faster and more reliable payments. These message points allowed us to help provide clear directions to payments stakeholders on the opportunities around faster payments and how they can capitalize on them.
At the 2026 MDI Partnership Summit, the FPC and other industry leaders outlined a practical roadmap for adopting faster payments, including infrastructure needs, vendor coordination, fraud mitigation strategies, and internal readiness planning. The discussion helped to address challenges around faster payments implementation, providing a step-by-step guide to how it can be achieved.
Similarly, to support greater adoption, at Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments 2026 Conference, the FPC helped shape dialogue on the future of Pay-By-Bank and the key enablers required to scale adoption. The talk explored how stronger customer/member experiences, enhanced consumer protections, aligned liability models, and advancing FI API capabilities can move the market forward. The FPC also dove into how community banks and credit unions are (and could be) leveraging instant payments by highlighting case studies in important customer/member use cases, exploring what is to come for send solutions, and sharing the ROI being realized through instant payments solutions. As a result of these discussions, participants walked away with tangible faster payments use cases and value propositions that can be used to support customer/member needs and achieve organizational goals and objectives.
Meanwhile, at NEACH’s upcoming Payments Management Conference and SFE’s Digital Directions 2026 Conference, the FPC’s presence as an exhibitor will further elevate awareness of the FPC’s mission and the value faster payments bring to all industry participants. By engaging directly with attendees across the payments ecosystem, the FPC will reinforce why a collaborative, industry-led approach is essential to accelerating modernization and expanding access to faster payments.
With these conversations and awareness initiatives underway, the FPC plans to continue leading the efforts to advance faster payments through additional speaking engagements, educational initiatives, and more. It is our goal to keep furthering dialogue, so the path forward becomes more informed, more strategic, and more impactful for all stakeholders. In that way, we can ensure faster payments continue to gain momentum, deliver greater value across the ecosystem, and reach their full potential.