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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 ). It flew in on Dec. Here’s where the canary flew in.
That’s the talk track now from the Fed , which a week ago today announced its plans to build and operate a new set of real-time rails, using accelerated access to employer paychecks as its launch usecase. Ironically, perhaps, the ACH network’s first direct deposit usecase was the U.S. It’s a pretty bold claim.
Visa and Mastercard , via their debit rails, enable real-time push payments in support of a number of peer-to-peer (P2P) and business-to-peer (B2P) usecases. The “state” of — well, anything — refers to its condition, the attributes and even the state of “mind” that denotes where we are at any given time on an endeavor.
Nobody cares what rails are going to be used any more than I care when I call you up on the phone what wires and satellites carried the signal to you,” Edwards said. On the front end, funds are pushed to the end consumer and are possibly even available for instant use. Consumers, not so much.
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