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How AR Can Usher The Legacy Lockbox Into The Digital Age

PYMNTS

Take the lockbox, for example. It’s a service designed around the ubiquity of the paper check, and with checks still a popular payment tool in B2B transactions, lockbox services remain in high-demand. What is the role of a lockbox today? Modernizing the Lockbox. What is its historical role?

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Santander Commercial Bank Delivers New Products and Digital Capabilities to Drive More Seamless Client Experiences

Fintech Finance

The Bank expanded its suite of digital cash management solutions with the following new products and services in 2024: Digital Checks: Clients can now send check payments faster and more securely via email while reducing or eliminating costs associated with paper checks. to offer clients mobile virtual cards.

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Deluxe CEO: B2B Payments Will See Resurgence In Paper Checks

PYMNTS

Much innovation in B2B has been focused on getting rid of paper checks. At least for now, companies are not writing as many checks, but that’s not due to any wholesale shift to digital channels, according to McCarthy. Lower business volumes translate, naturally, into lower check volumes. What Happens In A Recession.

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Innovation Eases The Friction Of Global Payment Rails

PYMNTS

This week’s examination of the latest in payments rails innovation finds financial service providers innovating on top of existing rails to address the friction of ACH, checks and other bank transfer infrastructure. ACH Gets A Boost In The Public Sector. Invoiced Tackles The Friction of Check.

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How B2C Companies Tap Into Integrated Receivables

PYMNTS

Companies in the business-to-consumer (B2C) space have historically relied on lockbox processing through a bank – or a series of banks, depending on their size. With payments coming in by check, DadeSystems Chief Marketing Officer Tom Berdan told PYMNTS in an interview that “seemed to solve most of their needs.”

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Commercial Cards: It’s All About The Data

PYMNTS

As B2B payments migrate away from the paper check in their own digitization journey, a supplier’s opportunity to access valuable transaction insight grows. Ironically, this is one way in which cards — despite their support for transmitting electronic data along with payment — have fallen short, even compared to paper checks.

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Billtrust CEO On Delivering The Perfect B2B Payment

PYMNTS

Second, AR professionals working from home could no longer run credit cards from their desks or accept paper checks in the mail. And third, a further slowdown of the postal system added even greater friction to the paper check, leading to longer days sales outstanding (DSO). But optimization involves more than just ditching paper.

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