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Graduating To Faster Payments

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Grade schools and colleges could use a massive textbook dedicated to payments – their own. Many schools get an F when it comes to payments, but the culprit might actually be the infernal “paper jam.” The writing is on the whiteboard: School’s out for paper payments. In Q3 2019, credit card issuer JCB International Co.,

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What’s Fast And Slow And Read All Over?

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Take faster payments. The company that commercialized the idea and consolidated the market to establish the first global faster payments network was Western Union in 1851. Innovative ideas are inspired by smart people who see problems and have the conviction, capital and courage to come up with new ways to solve for them.

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The Fastest Path To Faster Payments In The US

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The path to faster payments in the U.S. Instead, we could do something right away — or almost right away — that would make payments between consumers and businesses faster. We could kill the check – and the checks rails that exist to support them. Checks, on the other hand, serve no useful purpose. Yeah, right.