The NPA and future of instant payments

Issue 509 | 8 July 2023

The NPA and future of instant payments

Join Andrew Hewitt, Director of Payment and Data Solutions at FIS and Anjana Haines, Editorial Director at The Payments Association as they discuss the New Payments Architecture (NPA) and specifically instant payments, the future potential and risks, as well as Andrew’s own learnings from early account-to-account initiatives.

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The NPA and future of instant payments

Given that there is less to say about the New Payment Architecture (NPA) while we wait for the white smoke of vendor selection, Andrew’s and Anjana’s discussion naturally expands beyond the NPA to instant payments and Account to Account payments - they discuss:

• Instant Payments: A new flavour of Faster Payments providing instant “yes” / “no” payment certainty.