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When Instant Payments Are Just Payments

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As Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards told PYMNTS , “There are enough rails in place today to provide ubiquity, choice and instant access to good funds for consumers. We need to give payors more options to deliver choice, and more ways to build trust with the consumers and SMBs that the funds they get instantly will not be clawed back.”.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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A payment is the embodiment of good funds to an authenticated buyer and supplier, along with the detailed data that travels with it. Truly instant payments require a system that can do that without any margin of error, because instant also means irrevocable.

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Bridging The Gap Between Appearance And Reality Of Instant Payments

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That’s particularly true when funds are truly instant — meaning they are irrevocable. As Edwards noted, although having a real-time infrastructure would make the clearing and settlement process more efficient, payors and the channels that serve them don’t have to wait to move funds in real time to a payee.