December 31, 2020
What Payments Players Had To Say About Innovating Payments In...
In a year filled with unexpected challenges and a COVID-era economic climate that proved fatal for many companies, PYMNTS was lucky to hear directly from the front lines how scores...
August 03, 2020
Will COVID And Fraud Finally Kill The Paper Check?
PYMNTS has been writing for years about the ongoing push to #killthecheck, but paper checks live on because of their ubiquity of acceptance and simplicity to issue despite the fact...
February 07, 2020
Is 2020 Healthcare’s Year To #KillTheCheck?
At the dawn of a new decade, healthcare stands poised to embrace digital payments, and finally kill the check. Instant disbursements are fast cementing their place as a favored payout...
May 01, 2019
How FinTechs See The Evolution Of Payments And Commerce
FinTech firms are tracking the evolution of digital commerce and payments while tapping into the experiences of their leaders. AvidXchange Chief Operating Officer Steve Boehm, for instance, got the chance...
January 21, 2019
The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine
There’s a canary in the faster payments coal mine. It flew in on Dec. 14, the Friday before the week before Christmas, so you might not have noticed. That was...
June 14, 2018
Why Checks Are Still Golden For High-Risk Sellers
Paper checks have become the ugly (yet popular) duckling of the B2B payments industry. They are slow and cumbersome, require manual data entry and are often blamed for delayed vendor...
June 14, 2018
NEW REPORT: Can Digital Escrow Drive Big-Ticket eCommerce?
It’s easy for consumers to buy just about anything online these days. But big-ticket items – such as used vehicles, agricultural equipment and valuable artwork – require more than a...
May 21, 2018
The Gig Economy’s $1.2T Digital Payments Potential
A smart entrepreneur dropped out of college, identified an unmet market need and created an entirely new market segment. He did it by establishing a platform that matched an underutilized...
April 24, 2018
Breaking Away From The Bi-Weekly Payroll Tradition
For decades, businesses have continued the tradition of monthly or bi-weekly paydays. Even as payments accelerate, as FinTech advances and as cash flow management solutions become more sophisticated, employers continue...