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What’s Fast And Slow And Read All Over?

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Take faster payments. Soon, firms began popping up all over the country, filling in the pieces of the ubiquity puzzle essential for an interoperable network to operate at scale. The company that commercialized the idea and consolidated the market to establish the first global faster payments network was Western Union in 1851.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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And it’s going to shake the payments industry by its ankles. Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” What is it you ask? Is it one those amazing blockchain things?

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