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Governance in Payments

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Executive Summary

I’ve been writing about governance, trust, transaction costs and payments for a long time. In my view THE KEY to understanding how stablecoins, agentic, DeFi, Open Banking, tokenization and other payment innovations is governance. I seem to be the only one writing about it, so I don’t see a reason to stop now. Governance is the BIGGEST competitive moat for Visa and Mastercard, and its also the heart of their biggest break out growth opportunity. If you thought AI was transformational, radically reducing transaction costs (TCE per Nobel work of Ronald Coase) will dwarf it. In fact the monetization of AI is a Gordian knot of governance issues (see Agentic Commerce and Governance). 

Today I’m expanding on “value exchange” governance with 5 core themes.

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B2B Payments: Cards, RTP, and Stablecoins 

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  • B2B payments are a great source of growth for card and RTP networks, with 90% of volume remaining on check and ACH. But investors and innovators hoping to flip volume must assess the market with a great deal of skepticism. No one wants to pay a bill more quickly. There are 2 key factors to look at when assessing B2B payments: 1) Who holds the power in the relationship (ex Supply Chain Channel Master) and 2) How is it sold and bundled with other services (ex Quickbooks/SAP procurement).

  • I don’t see this as an impact to any current GDV flows in next 3 yrs, only growth impairment. It takes time to change contracts.

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