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The word is out about instant payments, consumers know what they are and want access to them. Great news - but now what? According to Ingo CEO Drew Edwards, the next big challenge is getting it out of industries that haven't yet heard the good word and into the regular payment flow of more consumer's day to day lives. What's next is still emerging, he said, but as of today choice, collaboration and a willingness to evolve are the starting points for anyone getting into the game.
Float - the time between when a payor pays out funds and a payee has them finally deposited in their account - has often been used as an argument aggainst adopting instant payments. Luckily, Ingo Money CEO noted, it is an idea that is finally dying out - and players across verticals are realizing the flexibility and control of instant outweighs any mythical advantages conveyed by float.
Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards says the next phase for instant payments will be less about getting them done, and more about what new things can be done with them.
The more consumers experience instant payments, the more they want to use them and meaning it's up to FIs to make it happen. Ingo Money shares what's needed.
Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards says businesses must consider new services to offer consumers as instant payments become necessary for the disbursement of funds.
As with all things in payments - when it coms to instant disbursements there's getting it done; then there's getting it done right. And when it coms to pushing funds to a customers, worker or another business the right way - Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards and CPO Lisa McFarland - that means building options that are truly ubiquitous. It's not about picking the right rail and building from it, they said, its about offering all the rails and letting the user pick what works for them.