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At this rate, checks will thrive well into the 2030s. She recently discussed the future of checks — and the market opportunity that comes from consumers still being tied to them — in an interview for PYMNTS’ “ Walk to the Elevator ” series with Karen Webster. But there exists a dichotomy with checks.
The technology offers authentication and verification during the transaction process to eliminate the anxiety of not knowing if the money will end up where it was intended — that is, to confirm that an account is open, active and in good standing before a payment goes through.
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The letter highlighted that access to the payments systems today is only possible through incumbent intermediaries – the banks and the card networks – which have not kept pace with the needs of consumers and businesses. Their support of the Fed as the answer to all that ails faster payments seems particularly well-timed.
Consumers, not so much. In fact, as Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards pointed out to Karen Webster in the most recent edition of their “how to instant” conversations, consumers more or less don’t know the payments rails exist — and are really only ever concerned with a single question: “How am I gonna get my money?”.
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Those payments are made largely over rails that have been in place for decades: the bank, ACH and wire rails and via a payment method that has existed for centuries — the good, old-fashioned paper check. We like our banks conservative, and we sleep well knowing that they are bound by regulations that keep that balance in check.
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