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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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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. It flew in on Dec. 14, the Friday before the week before Christmas, so you might not have noticed.

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When Instant Payments Are Just Payments

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Driven by faster phones, ingenious apps and sheer market force, the move to instant is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with payments, opening up new worlds of risk and reward. It’s been definitively shown that businesses and individuals will pay reasonable fees or percentages to receive their funds instantly.

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Bridging The Gap Between Appearance And Reality Of Instant Payments

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What the customer does care about is the experience — how fast the funds came, how quickly they were available for use, whether they ended up in an account where the consumer could make instant use of them and whether they could choose how to receive those funds. Consumers, not so much.