Banks serving as guinea pigs for Federal Reserve’s instant payments system
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The Fed's goal is to connect 9,000 financial institutions nationwide.

Fed’s new instant payment system could be trouble for PayPal, Venmo::The Fed’s goal is to connect 9,000 financial institutions nationwide.

  • darkfyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I think between rewards and actual credit, credit cards will probably be fine, but I’m curious if you think this solves for either of these use cases.

      • Deuces@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I can see it going either way. I think it’s gonna come down to apple and Google getting on board. If they adopt tap to pay with this system vendors will have less incentive to accept credit card fees. If they don’t, it won’t become ubiquitous enough for any store to get away with not allowing it and consumers will look out for their own interest to keep taking the credit benefits. (I realize collective action would make that argument void, I doubt true collective action is possible in any senecio.)

        That said, I cannot see a world where the banks let it get that far. This system relies on the banks cooperation and it wouldn’t be the first time they bought a law.

    • malloc@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Credit card rewards are really not worth it. These programs are largely funded by the fees that are charged to merchants which are ultimately passed on to you at time of purchase.

      I would much rather have reduced costs of goods rather than have paltry credit card reward programs.