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Banks have not rushed to implement A2A RTP systems anywhere in the world.

Let me quote from the post entitled Banks Have Not Lost The UPI Plot on my company blog:

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By transferring money instantly from payor’s account to payee’s account, Account-to-Account Real Time Payments like UPI eliminate float.

Since float is a key source of revenues for banks, you won’t find banks rushing headlong into A2A RTP systems anywhere in the world.

Where national A2A RTPs exist – that’s around 40 countries – they came about as a result of regulatory diktat.

India is no exception. The Indian regulator was easily able to achieve forced distribution of UPI among banks since 70% of the banking industry is owned by the government.

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I'm guessing Canada is no exception, either.

OMG 18 years and still counting. I can't think of another technology that has NOT been implemented for so long.    

LOL!

In ca. 2007, my colleague told me that ISO 20022 was just around the corner and sought my approval to enable our SWIFT Gateway product for the new standard.

I'd like to think it was my Waiting for Godot feeling but, even if it was procrastination, I vetoed the investment. 

Ergo I escaped the stainless steel dustbin investment:). 

Great post!

Much of the technical details are way above my paygrade but I got the feeling that the Waiting for Godot moment for ISO 20022 increased after reading:

Federal Reserve delays ISO 20022 cutover by two years

Banks can learn many lessons from Fintechs but there's a limit to how many of those lessons they can put to practice because of fundamental differences between Banking and Fintech in business model (PLBS v. VC), ability to leverage Regulatory Gap (Low v. High), and other attributes that I highlighted in my following posts:

Banks Or Fintechs: Who Is Ahead?

Why Banks Will Never Catch Up With Fintechs

"Global payments revenues in 2021 is $2.1T" ~ Finextra. Even if it grows at the post-pandemic bump rate of 11%, it will at most reach $3.53T in 2026. $20T by 2026 is seriously off the mark. 

I've heard the term "rug pull" applied to scams / frauds on crypto. What Goldman Sachs has done is surely "pull the plug" on Marcus / Retail Banking, as the body of the article says, but it's a little strange to term it "pull the rug" in the title.

@Anon + 1.

That said, when I was in UK, I think this was called "Cashback" although I've subsequently heard that term applied in India and other countries to post-purchase discount on credit card purchases. 

As far as I understand this scam, it's not like the scamster is masquerading as the legit pension agency. They're clearly telling victims, if you keep your money with the legit pension agency, you'll get X amount of money but if you divert the money to us, we'll give you X+Y, so victim knows they're not dealing with the pension agency but somebody else who they assume is legit at that point.

How will CoP help? 

While they're at it, they should call on government to ban interest on loan. Interest cost is no less crippling on small businesses than MDR / MSC.