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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.
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Sep 24, 2026
Episode 5: From Payment Rails to Connectivity | Payments Cannot Fail ft. David Watson
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13:55Mark FieldhouseHOST
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?
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14:09David WatsonGUEST
I think if you're outside the business, maybe you don't quite understand how important it is as much.
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14:15David WatsonGUEST
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.
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14:23David WatsonGUEST
You know, payments, when I first started my career in payments, payments was a back office function.
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14:27David WatsonGUEST
It was, you know, hey, you had a product or service and, you know, here's the invoice, pay in 30 days.
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21:51Mark FieldhouseHOST
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.