VocaLink Immediate Payments
Solutions for real-time payments
The ability to offer real-time payments across different
channels is a source of competitive advantage for banks and
corporates. VocaLink Immediate Payments, which can be implemented
in almost any country across the globe, provides this advantage,
enabling account-to-account credit transfers in real time.
Key Benefits
- Helps banks with mobile channel infrastructures to leverage
their investment in mobile payment technology
- Removes the barriers to entry for banks without mobile channel
capabilities
- Enables all banks to offer new products and services, retaining
and attracting customers and driving revenue
- Offers improved cashflow and a lower price point than Real Time
Gross Settlement (RTGS) for corporates
- Streamlines administration for small businesses
Offering 24x7x365 availability plus reliability, robustness,
scalability and speed, Immediate Payments comprises three
components:
- A high-performance payment switch that delivers payment and
confirmation messages between paying and beneficiary institutions.
This validates, routes and delivers messages in real time.
- A back-office function that provides reports, enquiry
facilities and a user Interface. The back office also provides the
interface to the nominated settlement agent to manage liquidity and
effect settlement.
Immediate Payments is designed to be licensed to payment
processors, who can integrate the product within a full end-to-end
service and operate the service locally. VocaLink can provide 24x7
second-line maintenance support for the product from within the UK.
Alternatively, Immediate Payments may be deployed as part of a
VocaLink hosted or managed service.
Why VocaLink?
We have a proven track record of pioneering within the payments
world: originating and implementing UK banking and mobile
industries to provide a collaborative, innovative, cost effective
and dependable solution.
For further details please download our
Immediate Payments Factsheet
For market insights please read our
Immediate Payments Research
To enquire about Immediate Payments from VocaLink
please contact us