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Deep Dive: Using Digital Payroll Tools To Maintain Financial Lifelines In Uncertain Times
Faster Payments // June 26, 2020

The United States federal government sought to disburse more than $1 trillion in stimulus funding in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown to help businesses stay afloat and pay citizens for urgent expenses. The money was sent out by check and direct deposit, yet...

Westgate On How Flexible Worker Payments Are Helping Reopen Resorts
Faster Payments // June 25, 2020

Hotels and resorts need their workers more than ever to safely reopen, but these workers must also meet their own needs – and early access to pay can play a vital role in helping them do so. In the inaugural edition of the Next-Gen Payroll...

Westgate Resorts: Why Faster Worker Pay Is Key To Reopening
Faster Payments // June 24, 2020

The United States economy is steadily reemerging from the COVID-19 pandemic-induced shutdown. Businesses are reopening to a different reality than the one that existed just three months ago, however. Firms are adopting new safety policies concerning everything from sanitation to public occupancy limits. Many of...

Pay Cards, Flex Pay Options Help Employees During Pandemic
Payment Methods // March 30, 2020

As the public worries about contracting the coronavirus, many Americans have a second concern: getting paid. And the pandemic appears to be accelerating the shift from paper checks and direct deposit to more flexible electronic payments such as PayPal and DailyPay, CNBC reported. DailyPay, the...

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ADP: Pandemic Prompts Firms To Replace Checks With Pay Cards

June 29, 2020
The pandemic has spurred businesses — by necessity — to use digital means to interact with their employees and to keep operations humming. And the great shift to digital is also changing the way employers are paying their employees. As Laura Valdespino, director of compliance solutions at ADP, told PYMNTS in a recent interview, using […]

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Pay Cards, Flex Pay Options Help Employees During Pandemic

March 30, 2020
As the public worries about contracting the coronavirus, many Americans have a second concern: getting paid. And the pandemic appears to be accelerating the shift from paper checks and direct deposit to more flexible electronic payments such as PayPal and DailyPay, CNBC reported. DailyPay, the New York-based provider of software that allows employees to access […]

Is Apple A Threat To Small Banks?

September 18, 2014
The big banks, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Capital One Financial, all played a prominent and public role in building Apple’s much lauded mobile payment platform Apple...