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How Instant Payments Are Revolutionizing the Merchant Payment Process

Jul 15, 2025, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM CST

The rise of instant payments is revolutionizing the B2B landscape, enabling businesses to move money with increased control, security, and transparency. Instant payments have many benefits, including immediate confirmations, irrevocability, low fraud levels, and opportunities to send vast amounts of data. However, the main benefit of instant payments is the ability of merchants to work with banks to transform the payments experience and leverage payments as a competitive advantage. In this session, instant payments experts, along with executives from financial institutions and merchant partners, explore how businesses can integrate instant payments into their financial operations.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the feasibility of instant payments given recent innovations.

2. Explain how request for payment (RFP) benefits merchants, including improved timing control and faster funds availability.

3. Outline steps merchants can take with financial partners to modernize payments using instant capabilities.