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Digital PaymentsAussie Central Bank Considers Regulating ePayments Fees
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the country’s central bank, is considering reducing the cost of electronic payments for merchants and consumers...
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B2B PaymentsPreserving Check Workflows Can Ease B2B Payments Digitization
Although a recent uptick in B2B payments innovation has accelerated corporates’ migration away from the paper check, old habits die hard, and...
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B2B PaymentsBuyers And Suppliers Tackle The Invoice-To-Pay Digitization Journey
Office closures and remote working mandates have created an uncomfortable wakeup call for accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) departments that...
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Digital PaymentsTrend Talk: Electronic Payments And Life After COVID-19
Speak with people responsible for any type of payments flow today, then find the one who isn’t keen to embrace the world’s...
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B2B PaymentsDeutsche Loops Thai Corporates Into Instant Payments
Customers at Deutsche Bank‘s Bangkok branch will soon have access to electronic payments via the bank’s PromptPay service, according to reports. In...
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CoronavirusMore ‘No-Touch Payments’ For B2B
“We anticipate that the COVID-19 crisis may be the catalyst for ending manual check printing and mailing in B2B payments,” Neal Anderson,...
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Retail7-Eleven Offers Prepaid Cards For Faster Access To Stimulus Funds
To help unbanked consumers and their families receive economic stimulus funds faster, 7-Eleven Inc. is providing a Trans@ct by 7-Eleven® Prepaid Mastercard®. The U.S....
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EarningsPayPal CEO To Investors: Let’s Celebrate 2019
PayPal’s CEO told investors and customers that the California-based electronic payments company deserves kudos for its performance last year. In a letter...
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B2B PaymentsShipping And Logistics: An Industry Jolted Into Digitization
The coronavirus has turned entire industries on their heads, not least of all the shipping and logistics sector. Factory shutdowns and stay-at-home...
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TaxesTax Time Tardiness And The Faster Refund
It’s unprecedented. The federal tax filing deadline in 2020 has been waived in the wake of coronavirus disruptions. The president announced there...
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B2B PaymentsTaking The Temperature Of B2B Payments In Healthcare
The U.S. healthcare system is a multi-trillion dollar industry, but one rife with inefficiencies, especially when it comes to payments. In an...
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Accounts PayableWhat U.S. Bank Is Doing To Drive Virtual Card Adoption
Many accounts payable (AP) professionals turning to electronic payments to streamline their companies’ payment processes — specifically, how they pay invoices from...
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MastercardMastercard Invests In Asia’s Pine Labs For Electronic Payment Options
In order to accelerate the use of electronic payment options in Asia, Mastercard has invested in merchant commerce platform Pine Labs, according...
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Security & 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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B2B 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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Payments 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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Payment 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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Payment 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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Payment 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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B2B 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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Partnerships / 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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AuthenticationPSD2, 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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Digital 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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POS 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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B2B 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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Payments 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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B2B 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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Digital 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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Payment 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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Smarter 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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B2B 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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SMBsPayPal’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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RetailHill 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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B2B 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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Payment 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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Payment 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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B2B 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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Payment 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...
