More than 70.3 billion real-time payments transactions were processed globally in 2020, a surge of 41 percent compared to the previous year, as the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated trends away from cash and checks toward greater reliance on real-time and digital payments, a report from ACI Worldwide and GlobalData reveals. The report analyzes global real-time, account-to-account payment volumes and forecasts across 48 global markets.

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