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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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where almost everyone is now banked) and made the case for why the Fed was positioned as the best player to operate a ubiquitous, interoperable real-time payments network – even though the Fed doesn’t have a great track record at payments innovation ( #killthecheck ). Here’s where the canary flew in. It also comes at a time in the U.S.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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For the dwindling numbers of people who still receive a physical paycheck, new applications let workers take a picture of that check and get instant, irrevocable access to the funds for a modest fee. Such as how the Fed plans get a critical mass of participants on board, which The Clearing House (TCH) is struggling to do now.