stackyFACTSThat money sitting in your quick-pay app does not actually belong to you yet. These companies pool billions of user dollars into their own massive master bank accounts, happily collecting massive institutional interest on your idle cash while you leave it sitting there to eventually pay for a pizza slice.
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