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Graduating To Faster Payments

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JCBI) and global payments platform Flywire unveiled a partnership that allowed students in JCBI’s Southeast Asia markets to easily make cross-border tuition payments. Paper checks are a costly time-suck, and the entire world is over it (except, presumably, check printers and the USPS).

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What’s Fast And Slow And Read All Over?

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Now, on Friday, 150 years since the birth of faster payments (version 1.0) and a whole pile of global payments innovation later, we were given a look at the Federal Reserve Board’s view of our faster payments future here in the U.S. No one, since without it, new payments schemes struggle, and many use cases are DOA.

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