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The GENIUS Act is Signed into Law: What Banks Need to Know about Payment Stablecoins

On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (the “GENIUS Act”), after it passed both the U.S. Senate by a vote of 68-30 and the U.S. House in a...more

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Federal banking agencies seek information on actions to address payments fraud

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On June 20, 2025, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced they are seeking...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Federal Reserve to Implement New ISO 20022 Funds Wiring System

Due to the Federal Reserve’s imminent shift to a new funds wiring system (known as ISO 20022), if you have upcoming plans to transfer any amount of funds via wire transfer, confirm with your bank and anyone else handling your...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank Explores Regulatory Risks in Gaming Ecosystems

On April 9, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City published a research briefing examining how video game platforms are reshaping the digital payments landscape. As in-game purchases and platform-based transactions grow in...more

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Stablecoin Legislation: A Stroke of GENIUS?

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President Trump's recent executive order "Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology" promoted the development of dollar-backed stablecoins as official U.S. policy. To facilitate this policy, Congress...more

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New Administration Outlook: An Opening for a National Payments/Fintech Charter – and a Pathway to Financial Modernization?

Recent announcements by Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) and X might signal that financial modernization may have finally reached a tipping point. With the right regulatory environment, fintechs and other new market...more

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Nutter Bank Report: November 2024

The CFPB has adopted a final rule to extend its oversight to the largest nonbank providers of digital consumer payment applications, including those that enable transfers from deposit accounts held at banks and other insured...more

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The Future of Payments: Exploring FedNow With the Payments Professor — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast

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In this episode of Payments Pros, Keith Barnett and Carlin McCrory are joined by Pidgin's Senior Vice President of Innovation Kevin Olsen to discuss faster payments and the FedNow service. Faster payments, such as real-time...more

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FedNow Is Live!

The Federal Reserve Bank announced last week that its instant payments system, FedNow, is now live with 35 banks and credit unions, which means that “[b]anks and credit unions of all sizes can sign up and use this tool to...more

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Nutter Bank Report: July 2023

The Federal Reserve has announced that its FedNowSM Service, a new interbank settlement service with clearing functionality to support instant payments, went live on July 20 with 35 early-adopting banks and credit unions. The...more

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FedNow®: A Payment Rail is Born

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The Federal Reserve launched its new real-time payments service, FedNow®, on July 20, 2023. This new instant payment rail settles consumer and business transactions through financial institutions’ Federal Reserve accounts....more

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FedNow Goes Live, Addressing Need for Speed in Banking

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The Federal Reserve (Fed) has officially launched its new instant payment service, FedNow, which aims to modernize the U.S.’s payment system. As previously discussed consumers and businesses will be able to send and receive...more

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Federal Reserve Launches FedNow Real-Time Payment Service

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Consumers and businesses stand to benefit from rapid access to funds at any time when routed through participating financial institutions. On July 20, 2023, the Federal Reserve announced the long-awaited launch of its...more

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July Launch Announced for the Federal Reserve’s FedNow Nationwide Payment System

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The Federal Reserve issued a press release announcing its plans for a July debut of FedNow, its service “to facilitate nationwide reach of instant payment services by financial institutions.” As previously discussed here, the...more

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Fed to launch FedNow in July

On March 15, the Federal Reserve Board announced a July launch date for its FedNow Service. Beginning the first week of April, the Fed will start formally certifying participants...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

July Launch of FedNow Service

This week the Federal Reserve reported that its instant payment service, FedNow, will be available for all participating financial institutions to use starting in July 2023....more

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FedNow—The Fed Announces Launch Timeline and Pricing

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The Federal Reserve’s long-awaited new payment system, FedNow, will be here and available to financial institutions sooner than we expected. In fact, many organizations have already been participating in the FedNow Pilot...more

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Money in 2023: What Tech Companies Need to Know About Instant Payments and FedNow

Technology companies in the payments space should pay close attention to the Federal Reserve’s (the Fed’s) upcoming launch of a long-awaited new payment system, the FedNow Service. The system will change the consumer payments...more

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Federal Reserve Invites Public Comment on Proposed Principles for Large Banking Organizations to Manage Climate-Related Financial...

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Regulatory Developments - Federal Reserve Invites Public Comment on Proposed Principles for Large Banking Organizations to Manage Climate-Related Financial Risks - On December 2, the Federal Reserve announced that it...more

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FedNow Set for 2023 Summer Launch

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On August 29, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced that its real-time payments system, FedNow, will launch sometime between May and July of 2023. FedNow will provide a platform on which banks can build their products....more

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Fed narrows timetable for FedNow launch

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Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors narrowed the timetable for the launch of its instant payments platform—FedNow—to mid-year 2023, specifically targeting a production rollout of the service in a May to...more

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Federal Reserve Proposes Tiered Framework for Evaluating ‘Master Account’ Applications

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On March 1, 2022, the Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) proposed a new framework for evaluating “master account” applications for direct access to the Fed’s payment system. The proposal builds upon the Fed’s original proposal from...more

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Fed moves up FedNow launch date

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On February 2, 2021, the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) announced that the launch date for its instant payments platform—FedNow—would be sooner than originally expected.  The announcement narrows the delivery timeframe by a full...more

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Fed Announces Details Of Real-Time Settlement Service To Support Instant Payments

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The Federal Reserve Board recently issued a Service Announcement setting forth the details of its FedNow Service, a new 24x7x365 interbank settlement service with clearing functionality to support instant payments in the...more

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Fed Announces "FedNow" Real-Time Payments Service

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On August 5, 2019, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Board”) proposed the development of a real-time gross settlement service (“RTGS”) called “FedNow.” The service, expected to launch in 2023 or 2024,...more

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