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2.7KSecurity & FraudAttempted Check Fraud Spiked 43 Pct. In Two Years
An uptick in check fraud has financial institutions considering whether they should update methods and stop using checks, according to a report...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsSouth Africa Lowers Check Limits To Promote B2B ePayments
South Africa is lowering the limit for which paper checks can be written in an effort by the nation’s payments industry to...
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1.5KPayments InnovationLegal Disbursements And The Paper Chase
The third decade of the 21st century is dawning with self-driving cars, the ability to rent almost anything and, best of all,...
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2.3KPayment MethodsFed Study: Electronic Devices Used In 24 Pct. Of Consumer Payments
Cards over cash – specifically, debit cards over cash. Among the findings of the recent 2018 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice, produced...
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3.2KB2B PaymentsFinexio Lands $2.5M For Accounts Payable Tech
Accounts payable FinTech Finexio has announced $2.5 million in new funding from new and existing investors. In a press release, the company...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsHow Cannabis Companies Can Leapfrog Into Payments Digitization
The compliance burden of a legal marijuana business having to manage regulations that vary by state, and between the state and federal...
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3.6KPayment MethodsRapyd FinTech Announces Single Cashless Platform In Singapore
Global FinTech Rapyd announced that it has launched a single platform in Singapore that enables businesses to go cashless. The company has...
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3.5KPayment MethodsFiserv Rolls Out New Bill Payment System Focused On Automation
Financial services company Fiserv has released a new system called CheckFree Next that will enable companies to provide automated and personal bill...
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3.8KB2B PaymentsChase, AFP Applaud B2B’s Shrinking Check Use
The paper check continues to be a prominent — and, in many cases, dominant — payment method in B2B transactions. PYMNTS research...
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3.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsMastercard, SumUp Partner To Expand ePayments Across Europe
A new partnership between Mastercard and SumUp aims to boost electronic payment acceptance locations across 27 European countries. Over the next five...
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6.7KAuthenticationPSD2, SCA And Exemptions To The Extension
There may be extensions to Strong Customer Authentication's (SCA) rollout this fall — and there may not. And, there may be exemptions...
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4.4KDigital PaymentsMastercard: The ePayables Opportunity
In the quest to streamline B2B processes, and to move beyond the way things have always been done – especially when it...
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1.5KPOS InnovationmyPOS Launches Its First Store In Belgium
European payments provider myPOS announced that it has opened a store in Antwerp, Belgium. The move comes four years after the company...
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3.3KB2B PaymentsThe Public Sector Takes The Lead On eProcurement
Government procurement moved to the spotlight last week when New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced he is closely monitoring the state’s...
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2.4KPayments InnovationHow FinTechs Take On Electronic Payments With Integrated Receivables
Integrated receivables have received a significant amount of interest and press in the banking space: DadeSystems President and CEO Bill Zayas, for instance,...
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9.7KB2B PaymentsWhere Electronic Payments Fall Short In B2B Commerce
Adoption of electronic procurement, online B2B commerce and digital invoices are all on the rise, yet just because a company uses an...
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5.7KDigital PaymentsVisa Takes VisaNet To Argentina
Visa has launched a new ePayment processing system called VisaNet in Argentina, the company announced on Tuesday (Jan. 29). The company said...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsIn The Middle East, Banks Embrace FinTech
Efforts in the Middle East by banks and other financial institutions to embrace FinTech are on the rise. As reported from Daily...
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5.4KB2B PaymentsRussia’s Electronic B2B Payments Expectations Go Beyond B2C
B2B payments always seems to be a step or two behind B2C payments innovation, on several fronts. It’s often struggling to make...
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5.0KPayment MethodsIn Hungary, Instant Payments Gain Traction
The new year dawned with individual country and company initiatives tied to instant payments, and moving beyond cash transactions. To that end,...
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8.0KB2B PaymentsCorcentric On Myth-Busting Electronic B2B Payments Adoption
The payments industry has been talking about the digitization of B2B transactions for years, maybe decades, with not much of a nudge...
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4.9KB2B PaymentsPeru Taps Vocalink In Payments System Overhaul
Real-time payments is a goal in Peru, as the automated clearing house there links with Vocalink. Retailers want real-time transactions, too, and SWIFT...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsCorporate ePayments Still At Risk For Employee Embezzlement
A new report from specialist insurer Hiscox recently revealed an unsettling trend about employee fraud and embezzlement: Most of the time, the...
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8.3KB2B PaymentsHow AP Automation Goes Beyond Cost-Cutting For Businesses Willing To Change
By its very nature, accounts payable (AP) is a cost center: It’s where money leaves the enterprise, after all. However, as with...
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5.7KB2B PaymentsCEOs, Finance Staff On Opposite Sides Of The Accounts Payable Fence
B2B FinTech solution providers are currently working on reducing the friction associated with implementing their solutions into enterprise back offices. As they...
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7.0KB2B PaymentsHarvard And Capital One Survey Mid-Market B2B ePayments Adoption
When it comes to B2B payments digitization, not every company will experience the same journey. That’s especially true for firms of varying...
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6.2KSmarter PaymentsNEW REPORT: How Smarter Payments Build Smarter, Safer Marketplaces
The rise of faster payment systems worldwide are not only enabling payments to move between parties at greatly enhanced speeds, but a...
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5.5KB2B PaymentsWEX Strikes Noventis Acquisition Deal
Commercial payments company WEX is looking to expand its offering by acquiring one of its partners, Noventis. A press release this week...
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6.2KB2B PaymentsKeeping Tabs On B2B Payments’ Tipping Point
Checks and ACH are entrenched payment methods when it comes to B2B, but that doesn’t mean they need to be enshrined. For Fortune...
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5.0KB2B PaymentsNACHA Taps AeroPay Express As B2B Payments Partner
NACHA has tapped AeroPay Express as its newest Preferred Partner for B2B Electronic Payment Enablement, the organization said Thursday (Sept. 13). As...
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8.4KSMBsPayPal’s Funds Now Gives SMBs Instant Access To Sales
When it comes to running a small business that accepts electronic payments, there are two words that business owners don’t like to...
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4.2KRetailHill Country And The Social Complexity Of Going Cashless
In the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington D.C., the Hill Country restaurant specializes in serving up the BBQ’s greatest hits — ribs,...
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3.5KB2B PaymentsDespite Carillion, Some Say No To Late Payments Legislation In UK
Amid the continued fallout of Carillion, let the market move construction firms to pay in ways more timely, says one prominent construction...
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5.6KPayment MethodsACH Network Payment Volume Jumps 6.2 Percent In Q2
NACHA — The Electronic Payments Association announced Wednesday (July 25) that debit and credit transactions totaled more than 5.7 billion in the second...
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4.9KPayment MethodsAirlines Go Cashless For Checked Bags
Airline passengers who want to pay in cash might find themselves spending more. American Airlines, which stopped accepting cash payments for snacks...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsCSI Digitizes Corporates’ Utility Payments With New Partnership
Corporate Spending Innovations, formerly known as CSI globalVCard, announced on Wednesday (June 6) a partnership with THG Energy Solutions in an effort...
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5.0KPayment MethodsCanPay Enables Cannabis Customers To Buy Online, Pick Up In Store
The grass is slowly getting greener in the commercial cannabis industry. This week, on May 17, debit-based cannabis payments solution CanPay announced...
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6.8KDigital PaymentsIn the Gig Economy, (Payments) Speed Thrills, But Added Fees Chill
In the latest Data Drivers, Hyperwallet SVP of digital markets Michael Ting weighs in on the evolving landscape for gig workers --...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsCitizens Tracks Mid-Market CFOs’ Real-Time Payments Plans
A new survey from Citizens Bank explores how mid-market CFOs in the U.S. are anticipating new technologies and market trends for the...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsCitizens Looks Toward Collaboration To Greet B2B Payments Disruption
Embracing electronic B2B payments is a two-way street: Payers and payees alike have to put in the effort to make the change....
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6.7KCashThe Financial Data Goldmine Of Order-To-Cash
Order-to-cash is an area of cash flow management that has the potential to significantly enhance a business’s financial performance. But ongoing reliance on...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsFastPay Acquires AnchorOps To Solve Media Agency Cash Crunch
The world of advertising and media has been turned on its head by the digital revolution, and among all of the challenges...
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6.7KB2B PaymentsA Global Approach To Local B2B Payments Digitization
Digitization of B2B payments is on the rise, but the trend is challenged by discrepancies across geographic markets, according to the latest...
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6.7KB2B PaymentsVirtual 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...
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7.5KB2B PaymentsFed Looks To Keep Momentum Going On Payments Improvements
It’s been more than two years since the Federal Reserve issued its Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System paper, in which the...
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8.4KB2B PaymentsMaking The Perfect B2B Payment
When organizations take in and pay out purchase orders and invoices, what does the perfect payment look like? Bob Sneed, vice president...
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5.5KRegulationCLEARR And CHOICE On The Hill, But Not On Payments Regs
Capitol Hill offers the ultimate horse race. Following who’s up, down, in the running, out of the race and which bills might...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsTracking Corporate Spend, Even After The Invoice Is Paid
Within the enterprise, there is an initial invoice associated with any purchase, but the payments don’t stop there. According to Apptricity CEO...
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6.6KVISAVisa Beats 3Q Estimates As Payments Volume Leaps
Double-digit transaction growth and strength in Europe boosted Visa’s earnings beyond the Street’s expectations, while management also gave the lift to expected revenue...
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5.8KInternationalIndia’s Grand (De) Monetization Experiment
Eight months in, assessing the impact of what happens when you remove 86 percent of a country’s notes in circulation. India’s push...
