A payment is the transfer of monetary value from one party to another, either in cash or noncash form. Cash payments are made through the exchange of physical currency, while noncash payments usually involve transferring value between bank accounts via payment systems. Banks facilitate these transfers for their customers through multiple electronic and paper-based systems. MORE.
AFP Real-time Payments Survey
The 2023 Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) Real-time Payments Survey, underwritten by The Clearing House, finds that adoption and implementation of real-time payments varies across organizations based upon revenue and size. Overall, though, by 2028, over three-fourths of organizations expect to be using real-time payments for both sending and receiving payment transactions.
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