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Tuition, Digital Disbursements And The Paper Chase

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Colleges have had the ability to issue grants and refunds via ACH for 20 years, but government regulations insist on the tangible, tactile paper check as payment mode of choice despite its well-known weaknesses — lack of speed and security, plus an error-prone nature. Postal Service for the foreseeable future.

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Congress Presses Fed On Real-Time Payments Plan

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The Federal Reserve’s buildup to faster payments innovation came to a head in August when it announced FedNow , its proposed real-time payments infrastructure under the draft Payments Modernization Act of 2019. That seems like a lifetime in this business,” said Congressman French Hill of Arkansas. payments ecosystem.

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