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Podcast: Payments on Fire™
Episode: Episode 101 - The U.S. Faster Payments Council - Kim Ford
Description: A Better Way, Please Last week I tried to connect my accounts at two different banks. Between account type mismatches (my bad), long account numbers, ACH micro-deposits, and balky websites, well, I'll confess I put a check in the mail as a "quicker" way of overcoming the electronic barriers. Snail mail. Really? That situation, and many more where speed matters, is exactly why the world is turning to faster payment systems that allow the accountholder to push money from an account she controls to a recipient in near real-time. To eliminate entry, and sharing, of...