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Breaking Down The Faster Payments Construct

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Take merchant acquirers who wish to expedite the posting of funds on the same day to a merchant’s bank account. Same Day ACH can give a boost to them, as well as to prepaid cards that can be loaded faster, with the assurance of having good funds behind them. banks and credit unions the ability to better serve their customers.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Or that wire transfer revenues could be cannibalized as end users are incented to shift payments to RTP. No one argues the need to rid the payments systems of inefficiencies and frictions associated with getting access to funds when needed – or the importance of knowing with certainty when good funds will arrive.

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How Uncertainty Kills Commerce

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Businesses wait to be paid by their buyers — not knowing when the money will actually be received, if it is good funds and sometimes how much they’ll get. So do their corporate customers: certainty that there are good funds and certainty about when they can access the money. Businesses spend a lot of time waiting too.

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PODCAST: Solving Instant Payments Ubiquity Problem

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And for good reason, Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards noted in a recent conversation with Karen Webster and Ingo Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer Lisa McFarland — instant payments present a world of interesting possibilities for creating better consumer experiences across a wide range of uses.