Instant Disbursements news and trends

76% of Gamers Who Can’t Access Instant Payouts Would If They Could 
Real-Time Payments // April 24, 2024

Winning can provide an instant rush — and although 8 in 10 gamers prefer immediate access to their winnings, less than half of gamers now have access to instant payouts. That is one key takeaway from “Generation Instant: Gamers and Winnings,” a report PYMNTS Intelligence created...

New Airline Refund Requirements Put Spotlight on Instant Digital Disbursements
Travel Payments // April 24, 2024

Air travel is a complicated business — and those complications can get passed down to travelers. From extended delays when waiting for refunds after abrupt flight cancellations, to spending hours and even days haggling with airline customer service staff, U.S. consumer frustrations with the airline...

Instant Disbursement Can Stem the Tide of Check Fraud
Disbursements // March 22, 2024

For the bad actors, check fraud is en vogue. For consumers, and for banks, the rising embrace of disbursements may have a positive knock-on effect: cutting down on check fraud by reducing the number of checks intercepted by fraudsters. As reported, the Financial Crimes Enforcement...

New Data: Instant Disbursement Use Spikes 8X Since 2017
Accounts Receivable // March 22, 2024

More than half of United States consumers received disbursements from various corporate and government agencies in the last 12 months. This number is slightly less than at this time last year due to an ongoing drop in government disbursements. Even so, the number of disbursements...

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Better Instant Payments Availability Could Keep America Truckin’

May 10, 2024
As the primary transporters of goods in the U.S., truck drivers play a crucial role in the country’s supply chain. Even so, the turnover rate among this group is high, and keeping them on the road is difficult. The result could be transportation shortages. One reason for the high turnover is that truck drivers often […]

Instant Payouts Take Center Stage as Online Sports Betting Gains Popularity

May 12, 2023
The proliferation of riskier, long-shot betting strategies may mean gamblers are more eager to get their winnings — now. The Wall Street Journal reported this week (May 7) on the...

26% of Consumers Want All Disbursements to be Instant

April 28, 2023
We’ve all gotten used to speed, to getting what we want on demand, through digital channels. In research done in collaboration between PYMNTS and Ingo Money, and as detailed in...

Top News In Payments: More Companies Ponder Malaysia Banking Application; Vodafone Bails On Libra

January 22, 2020
In today’s top news, Grab, Razer, AirAsia and CIMB join other companies considering applying for one of five digital banking licenses in Malaysia, and Vodafone leaves the Libra Association. Also,...