On July 21, 2017 the Federal Reserve’s Faster Payments Task Force released the Faster Payments Task Force Final Report Part Two. The Final Report is a follow-up to Part One of the Faster Payments Task Force Final Report, which was published in January 2017 and provided an overview of the Task Force’s objectives and a description of the payments landscape. The Final Report summarizes the specific faster payments solution proposals submitted to and analyzed by the Task Force, as well as the Task Force’s goals and recommendations for developing an ecosystem that is conducive to the development of faster payments solutions, with an ultimate goal of developing a payments system that is faster, ubiquitous, and secure by 2020.
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