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Your take on the week's news, with the sources attached

Paragraph gathers what's changing in your industry and connects it to what your readers care about. It drafts a perspective with every claim linked to its source. You add the take, approve it, and publish.

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From a week of headlines to one useful perspective

Paragraph leaves out the press releases and the sponsored lists, connects the developments that belong together, and cites every claim.

Sources this week payments · 6 developments
  • Regulator finalizes instant-payments rule for mid-size banks · Reuters
  • Three fintechs wind down card programs in the same week · The Information
  • Sponsored: Top 10 payment trends to watch left out
  • Same-day ACH volume up 38% year over year · Federal Reserve
  • Press release: Acme Pay raises Series B left out
  • Treasury teams cite reconciliation as top pain point · industry survey
Sourced article draft Waiting for your review

Instant payments just became table stakes for mid-size banks

  • Connects the new rule to the same-day ACH numbers, and to what it means for the treasury teams who read you. Reuters, Fed

  • Explains why three card programs closed in one week, and why that's the same story. The Information

  • Ends on the question your readers are asking: build, buy, or wait. survey

Drafts for review Sourced article X post LinkedIn post

How it will work

Set it up once. After that, the drafts are waiting for you.

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    Tell it your beat. Your industry, the sources you trust, the ones you don't, and who reads you. Paragraph fills in the rest from what you've published.

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    Pick a rhythm. Weekly, or only when something big happens. Paragraph gathers the developments since your last piece.

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    Read the draft. What happened, why it matters to your readers, and where your take goes. Every claim is linked to its source.

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    Approve it. The article publishes to your site, and the social posts go out when you say so.

One perspective, where your readers get their news

The article carries the analysis and the sources. The X post and the LinkedIn post carry the point, each written for its feed.

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@dana

Mid-size banks now have 18 months to support instant payments. Same-day ACH is already up 38% year over year. The interesting part isn't the rule. It's that three card programs shut down the same week, and it's the same story. My read, with sources:

dana.io/instant-payments

LinkedIn

Dana Okafor · Payments analyst

Two things happened in payments this week that look unrelated and aren't. The regulator finalized its instant-payments rule for mid-size banks, with an 18-month window. And three fintechs wound down their card programs within days of each other. Both are the same shift. Settlement is moving to rails that clear in seconds, and the economics of everything built on the old ones are changing with it. For treasury teams, the question is no longer whether to move but whether to build, buy, or wait. I wrote up what the numbers say, with every source linked:

dana.io/instant-payments

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Your readers can get the headlines anywhere. What they come to you for is what the headlines mean for them, and that's what the draft is built around.

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Sources stay attached to the points they support, so your analysis holds up when a reader, an editor, or a skeptic follows the link.

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Frequently asked questions

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Industry insights is in development and isn't available to run yet. Its scope may change before it launches. In the meantime, Paragraph's agent can already research a topic and draft a post from it in chat, and the Changelog Playbook is live today.

From the sources you name and the ones it finds on your beat: trade press, filings, regulator notices, and the people you follow. You can add sources it should watch and exclude ones it should ignore.

It's designed to link every claim to a source and to mark anything it couldn't source. You decide what to do with the gap before publishing, not after. You check the draft before it goes out.

That's the plan. The draft marks where your opinion belongs, and you write it in the normal Paragraph editor before approving. Your edits teach it what you want next time.

No. Every draft waits for your approval before it publishes to your site or posts to a social account. That's how every Playbook works.

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