Disbursements

Disbursement is a form of payment from a public or dedicated fund. Alternatively, it means a payment made on behalf of a client to a third party for which reimbursement is subsequently sought from the client.

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Disbursements
US Local Governments And The Slow Death Of The Check
January 23, 2020

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How Shutterstock Relies On Fast Disbursements For Contributor Loyalty
January 22, 2020

Photographers and other creative professionals find aggregators to be extremely efficient at distributing their work, but extremely inefficient when it comes to paying them royalties when their works are used. In the latest Disbursements Tracker, Paul Brennan, vice president of content operations for Shutterstock, discusses...

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Why State And Local Governments Struggle To Shred The Paper Check
January 22, 2020

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How Shutterstock Fast-Tracks Royalty Disbursements For Its 1 Million Contributors
January 21, 2020

More than 90 percent of U.S. consumers now prefer to receive digital payments over paper checks. Cash and checks persist as the disbursement methods for many companies, however, despite the growing preference for online payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

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Why Changes Are Slow In Coming To Legal Disbursements
December 23, 2019

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Using Digital Disbursements To Shake Up The Legal World
December 20, 2019

Plaintiffs can sometimes wait years for legal settlements to be decided, then even longer for the paper check to arrive in the mail. That’s despite the availability and security offered by digital disbursement tools. In the latest Disbursements Tracker, PYMNTS spoke with Joshua Browder, founder...

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An Automated, AI Fix For Law Firms’ Paper Check Rut
December 18, 2019

Checks are continuing their fall from grace, but instant payments still have not risen to take the disbursements crown quite yet. The two payment methods are meeting somewhere in the middle, with check disbursements still common enough that they cannot be ignored. Get the Full...

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How Instant Busts The Myth Of Float
November 26, 2019

For the person on the receiving side of an instant payment, there isn’t a lot of selling that has to happen because the concept of getting one’s money faster more or less sells itself. That’s a story the numbers more or less tell over and over,...

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Deep Dive: How Demand For Instant Payments Is Affecting Lending
November 05, 2019

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