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What’s Fast And Slow And Read All Over?

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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. Take faster payments. One such innovator recognized the vast commerce potential that could be unlocked if new technologies were used to move money and messaging between people in near real-time.

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The Fastest Path To Faster Payments In The US

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We could kill the check – and the checks rails that exist to support them. Just because checks have existed since at least 13th century Venice and 19 billion of them were used to pay people and businesses in the U.S. Checks, on the other hand, serve no useful purpose. The path to faster payments in the U.S. Yeah, right.