Financial Wellness, For Employees, And Their Employers Too
In an age where instant payments — and if not instant, then faster payments — are becoming the norm for consumers and commerce, wither the faster access to paychecks? Though direct deposit is a...
View ArticleIngo And The ‘Kill The Check’ Push (Payment)
Pull. Push. Pay. Might push payments be on the cusp of pushing into the mainstream? In the first installment of the Ingo Money “Kill the Check” series, the company’s CEO, Drew Edwards, told PYMNTS’...
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Can Push Payments Be The Ultimate Check-Killer?
When it comes to accessing their money, today’s consumer wants it now, with the push of a button. As they grow bolder with this demand, consumer requirements for speed, simplicity and choice in how...
View ArticleEmirates Islamic Applying QR Codes, Blockchain Tech To Paper Checks
Emirates Islamic is reportedly planning on using a combination of QR codes and blockchain technology to enhance protection from fraud of paper checks. According to a report, Emirates Islamic plans to...
View ArticleAmericans Want Paper Checks To Die (#KillTheCheck)
Cash is garnering less interest among American consumers, who are excited about mobile payments. That’s according to a new survey from Viewpost, which polled 1,000 consumers in the U.S. According to a...
View ArticleAnticipating B2B Payments Evolution With B2C Payments Trends
B2B payments company Viewpost just released a curious report: a survey on consumer payment habits and trends. Why would a corporate payments company want to dive into the world of consumers? According...
View ArticleFiserv Goes Direct With Disbursements
Paul Diegelman, VP of business development & partnerships at Fiserv, says that the story of bringing B2C digital disbursements to corporates at the financial services company started four years ago...
View ArticleGiving Virtual Cards A Chance In Supplier Payments
In an often-cited report released by NACHA last month, accounts receivables executives said they are gearing up for ACH payments to over take paper checks when it comes to how their business customers...
View ArticleAmerican Express, MineralTree Are Bringing More Efficiency To Accounts Payable
American Express, the credit card company, and MineralTree, an accounts payable (AP) and payment automation solution provider, announced news on Tuesday (August 1) the launch of an integrated solution...
View ArticleA Brave New World Of (Push) Insurance Payments
http://www.pymnts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/KTC-Ep-4-Insurance.mp3 Push payments have been one of the more talked-about terms in the marketplace over the last year, with many industries and...
View ArticleVirtual Cards’ Role In B2B Payments Digitization
Even as B2B payments progresses toward digitization, paper checks stick around. Analysts and industry players generally have their bets set on ACH to help guide accounts payable toward electronic...
View ArticleToday In Data: #KilltheCheck
Though paper checks are clunky, unpopular and outdated, they still dominate the American economy in terms of payment methods, with more than $22 trillion in checks written each year. That’s bad news...
View ArticleWhat Tech Will Make Irrelevant For The Class of 2035
Consider, for a moment, the Class of 2035. What’s wrong with these kids of the future? Nothing, actually. Their future is just showing up all over the place — but differently than expected. In fact,...
View ArticleWhy Faster B2B Payments Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint
TransCard CEO Greg Bloh knows that paper checks are a sticky challenge in B2B payments. “There are well-documented instances of how much reliance organizations still have on checks, even though this...
View ArticleAccountants Find Their Place In SMB FinTech Disruption
Paper checks for domestic suppliers, wire transfers for international ones. That’s the status quo in corporate payments, and it’s not only creating friction for the business payer; it’s creating...
View ArticleToday In Data: Opioid Addiction, Same Day ACH And Women Shoppers
Today, in PYMNTS’ data, major retailers are implementing stricter return policies to help fight drug addiction, loan firms are using venture capital (VC) funding to better serve consumers, Same Day ACH...
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Bringing Direct Deposit To The Unbanked
“Expensive,” “time-consuming” and “slow.” All those time-tested descriptors for the paper check paint a problem that’s hard to dispel when employees simply do not have another way to accept their...
View ArticleChecks, Data Sharing Limits Force B2B FinTechs To Find A Workaround
Analytics technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics process automation (RPA) turned cash flow forecasting into more of a science than it’s ever been. Of course, at...
View ArticleToday In Data: Kiosks, Equifax And FinTech VC All See Growth
Today in PYMNTS data, the kiosk market is seeing continued growth and proliferation, the Equifax breach impacted more U.S. individuals than previously reported, corporate disbursements are still made...
View ArticleRethinking Checks’ Role In B2B Payments Friction
Any FinTech operating in the procure-to-pay, vendor payments and accounts payable (AP) spaces can’t deny the fact that paper checks are a headache. But they also can’t deny that checks continue to make...
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