Understanding Corporates’ Faster Payments Strategies
Amid the rollout of Same Day ACH — in the midst of several other faster, digital payments initiatives and in a market where B2B payments seem to finally be getting smarter — the AFP’s latest research...
View ArticleSometimes It Takes A Bagel
Every innovator can point to something that stirred up their passions for changing the world and working 100 hours a week to make their vision a reality. For Tom Villante, Founder and CEO of YapStone,...
View ArticleIndia SME Payments Stifled By Demonetization
India has demonetized its 500-rupee and 1,000-rupee currency notes, a move made earlier this month, as the government looks to curb counterfeiting. But the decision came as a bit of a shock to the...
View ArticleJapan’s Top Bank Testing Digital Checks On Blockchain
Blockchain has significant potential to disrupt B2B payments in the name of digitization and security. And with paper checks as some of the most manual and least secure corporate payment technologies...
View ArticleUnlocking Paper Checks’ Potential With APIs
The paper check has a nasty reputation in B2B payments as a cumbersome, manual and risky payment rail. Yet data from the 2016 Association of Financial Professionals’ Electronic Payments Survey released...
View ArticleA FinTech Reality Check: Paper Checks Need Attention
Amid the slew of announcements coming out of SAP Ariba Live, mobile capture software company Mitek revealed a new collaboration with the company that enables businesses on the Ariba Network to remotely...
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NEW REPORT: How Push Payments Pull Payments Innovation Forward
With all the new payment innovations on the scene, it seems like the paper check is the party guest that failed to RSVP and refuses to leave. Payments can be issued on a recurring or a non-recurring...
View ArticleHow To Get SMEs To Switch From Checks To ACH
QuickBooks Online touts itself as a leader in SME accounting. Last year, Intuit announced that QuickBooks Online surpassed the 1.5 million user mark — not just a sign of corporate growth, the company...
View ArticleFed Finds ACH Surpasses Checks In Corporate Payments
The Federal Reserve made news late last week when it released its newest data on consumer and business payment habits, assessed via data from 2015 compiled in 2016. According to Fed researchers, there...
View ArticleIn Lending, Next-Day Payout Doesn’t Cut It
Online and alternative lending is satiating consumers’ need for speed when it comes to accessing finance. But, while an online loan decision may be near-instant, borrowers may still have to wait...
View ArticlePaper Checks Continue To Steal The B2B Payments Spotlight
2017 may go down in B2B payments history as the year the space finally saw a bump in attention from innovators. Amid the excitement over faster payment initiatives, blockchain, open banking efforts and...
View ArticleDon’t Write Off The Paper Check Just Yet
In the path of FinTech innovation, many expect the inevitable demise of the paper check. But the data doesn’t lie: Paper checks are alive and well, despite efforts to kill it. The latest in PYMNTS’...
View ArticleGig Workers And Instant Pay
Workers in the gig economy don’t always get paid as quickly as they’d like. Drivers for Uber, for example, have their payments calculated on a weekly basis that begins and ends each Monday at 4:00 A.M....
View ArticleDBS Bank Targets Singapore’s Corporate Check Problem
In its latest initiative to promote the digitization of B2B payments, Singapore’s DBS Bank said it’s working to support its corporate customers’ shift away from the paper check. Reports in The Business...
View ArticleThe Multibillion-Dollar Problem Of B2B Payments Friction
B2B payments is at the center of efforts to innovate by FinTechs, banks and others, but corporates’ business-to-business payment processes remain complex, erroneous and a deterrent to growth. That’s...
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Picking Up The Pace Of Payments To Stay Competitive
Consumers have been trained – by Venmo and other P2P payments providers in the U.S. and around the world – to expect to be able to send and receive funds easily and quickly. Hence their disappointment...
View ArticleWhy Enterprise Digitization Doesn’t Always Solve AP Friction
To demonstrate the manual nature of an invoice payment process, Catherine Andersen, co-founder and chief executive officer of accounts payable technology firm Roger, reflected on the strategies of one...
View ArticleThe Accounts Payable Conundrum: Same-Day ACH Vs Checks
Accounts payable can be a contradiction showcasing the frustratingly slow pace of B2B payments digitization. In PYMNTS’ Payables Friction Playbook, “Why Firms Are Ready For An AP Upgrade,” a...
View ArticleA ‘Payment-Agnostic’ Approach To Accounts Payable
The competition is heating up between payment technologies in accounts payable, with ACH and virtual cards seeing significant pushes in the B2B payments space to combat the dreaded paper check. Which...
View ArticleWhy Real-Time B2B Payments Adoption May Be A Molehill, Not A Mountain
Paper checks are often pointed to as an example of how difficult it can be for corporates to change their payment behaviors. With newer digital, automated payment technologies emerging in the B2B...
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