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Forty Is The New Faster (Payments)

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More than 40 years after its debut, the Automated Clearing House Network becomes the first payments system in the country to offer ubiquitous faster payments to every consumer and business in the U.S. via all banks and credit unions. Forty is the new faster — payments, that is. Today (Sept. Every bank in the U.S.

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Breaking Down The Faster Payments Construct

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In just a matter of days, the payments industry will see a significant — and ubiquitous — change in the way payments are sent and received. Same Day ACH will create a new option for faster payments for all the banks and credit unions across the U.S. What’s Under The Faster Payments Umbrella?

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What’s Fast And Slow And Read All Over?

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Between 1866 and 1910, Western Union fought bitterly with the federal government over who should own and operate this network now that it was up and running and ubiquitous. Ubiquitous means all, or certainly almost all, of the 13,000-plus FIs that exist here in the U.S. The year was 1837. The invention was the telegraph.

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