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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Take two announcements from just last week, related to the evolution of faster payments in the U.S. First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day. A Couple of Important Dots.

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ACH Deposit Meaning and Benefits: Complete Guide

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They give their bank a request to send funds through the ACH network. The bank then packages this request into a digital file, which gets sent to an ACH operator. This operator acts like a middleman, making sure everything is in order and routing the payment to the right place.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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Direct deposit over the ACH network eliminated that friction and got them earlier access to those funds. Fast-forward four decades, and everyone – FIs, ACH operators, FinTechs – have been working overtime to get payroll off the paper check and to get wages into workers’ bank accounts faster.