The hard part of payments is access, not the API
A payroll rollout taught me the friction is never the integration. It is funding caps, routing permissions, and what can clear directly versus what has to detour through a sponsor bank. That is why the Fed's new payment-account RFI matters - access is becoming a design decision, not just a policy one.
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