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Adoption of real-timepayments in the U.S. The assumption, of course, is that faster payment functionality only has a place in the peer-to-peer payments arena. ’s push for real-timepayments is led by The Clearing House, which aims for ubiquity of its real-timepayments (RTP) network by 2020.
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Still, others have said that B2B payments should be largely left out of the faster payments conversation. remains in its early days of faster and real-timepayments adoption, so neither of these two schools of thought have been proven correct.
When you’re a small business, and you have 60 or 80 payments a month, automation is nice, but it’s definitely not the value proposition that will shift businesses off checks.” “Buyers and sellers in the B2B world, they do not share interests, many times,” he said. The result? Conflict Of Interest.
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