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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Connecting these two dots suggests a few important things that, for banks and card networks, might be the 2020 hindsight that could have come in handy had they stopped to look backwards a few years ago: That the Fed has much more than a passing interest in how faster payments are run in the U.S. This delay was initiated by the Fed.

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Payments’ Role In The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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As a result, he predicted that the entrenchment of faster payments will be a linear progression that moves from consumer-to-consumer (C2C) to consumer-to-business (C2B), then to business-to-consumer (B2C) to business-to-business (B2B). Yet, Kresse pointed out that, ultimately, individual consumer behavior drives changes in business behavior.

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FPC 2023 Spring Member Meeting

Faster Payments Council

The panel will explore some of these initiatives including the New York Fed's CBDC pilot program with major banks, the recently concluded Boston Fed's Project Hamilton and other global CBDC projects. C2B) to better capture the benefits of digital and mobile transacting, and how it's beginning to happen in the U.S.,

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