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David Watson

President and CEO of The Clearing House, the operator of U.S. payments networks RTP and CHIPS, formerly Chief Product Officer at Swift.

Sep 24, 2026

13:55
But what is the one thing that the industry, do you think, still misunderstands about where payments are heading generally? Do you think there is a misconception?
14:05
I think there is and there isn't.
14:06
I think if you're in the business, I think there's very little.
14:09
I think if you're outside the business, maybe you don't quite understand how important it is as much.
14:15
But I think also there's many people in the business who think that it's some kind of large money making cash cow business, when actually it's a mechanism to support other types of business, really.
14:23
You know, payments, when I first started my career in payments, payments was a back office function.
14:27
It was, you know, hey, you had a product or service and, you know, here's the invoice, pay in 30 days.

7 MINS LATER

21:51
And for those that don't know much about the clearinghouse, maybe if you could just take a few moments to talk about what responsibility the clearinghouse has in that kind of future and what role they'll play and how significant that role is.

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