Finance teams generally know what paper checks cost. They can calculate printing and postage expenses. They can also estimate reconciliation costs and fraud losses. But according to Theresa McEndree, chief growth officer at Choice Digital, one of the highest costs of legacy disbursement programs rarely...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is proposing regulatory changes that would significantly restrict the circumstances under which federal agencies can issue paper checks, pushing the government closer to an all-electronic payment system. The Bureau of the Fiscal Service published a proposed rule Tuesday (April...
The biggest obstacle to real-time payments adoption may not be fraud, but the fear of fraud. That’s the central finding of “Reality Check: Fact vs. Fiction in Real-Time Payments Fraud,” a PYMNTS Intelligence report produced in collaboration with The Clearing House. The report puts hard...
For many businesses, the story around instant payments may be shifting from fear to familiarity. That is one of the clearest takeaways from “Instant Myths: Debunking Faster-Payments Fraud Fears,” the January 2026 Money Mobility Tracker from PYMNTS Intelligence and Ingo Payments. The report shows that fraud concerns still weigh...
October 19, 2026
The check was supposed to be dead by now. Instead, it has become a $15 trillion reminder that moving money and settling a business obligation are not always the same thing. According to research briefs from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland published in September, ACH accounted for 41% of business-to-business payments by number in 2024, […]
August 24, 2026
Finance teams generally know what paper checks cost. They can calculate printing and postage expenses. They can also estimate reconciliation costs and fraud losses. But according to Theresa McEndree, chief...
April 27, 2026
The biggest obstacle to real-time payments adoption may not be fraud, but the fear of fraud. That’s the central finding of “Reality Check: Fact vs. Fiction in Real-Time Payments Fraud,”...
April 21, 2026
For many businesses, the story around instant payments may be shifting from fear to familiarity. That is one of the clearest takeaways from “Instant Myths: Debunking Faster-Payments Fraud Fears,” the January 2026 Money...
April 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is proposing regulatory changes that would significantly restrict the circumstances under which federal agencies can issue paper checks, pushing the government closer to an all-electronic payment system. The Bureau of the Fiscal Service published a proposed rule Tuesday (April 28) in the Federal Register, outlining amendments to 31 CFR […]
February 25, 2026
Paypal has formed a partnership with Rainforest, an embedded payment provider focused on software platforms. The collaboration will see the companies launch an embedded payment integration to help software platforms move more processing volume...
July 28, 2025
Singapore’s banking association has debuted an ePayments tool to help businesses transition from paper checks. EDP and EDP+, announced by The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) on Monday (July...
November 12, 2024
FIS is teaming with Oracle to remove paper checks from the utility billing process. The FinTech company announced Tuesday (Nov. 12) that its BillerIQ solution, running on the Oracle Cloud...
