PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

15) that banks using its Bank Centric Payments platform will now have access to real-time payments thanks to a collaboration with Push Payments. Their partnership will allow financial institutions to offer real-time and same-day ACH payments as a white-labeled solution, reports said. The company said Tuesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

Leavitt said the current climate presents the opportunity for B2B payments volume to shift to the card rails, while enabling businesses to access much needed credit at the same time. Visa Enables Commercial Push Payments For KyckGlobal. Just which payment rail they will migrate to, however, remains unclear.

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Finextra

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The second day of AFP in Nashville, Tennessee, saw BNY Mellon’s Sumner Francisco, Finzly’s Karuna Kathir, PTap Advisory’s Peter Tapling and Walmart’s Sarah Arnio, take to the stage to discuss the adoption and benefits of Faster Payments and the differences between rails such as instant payments, same-day ACH, and push-to-card transactions.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

million recipients faster through Direct Express, where Comerica Bank acts as the Treasury Department’s financial agent for prepaid debit cards. million recipients faster through Direct Express, where Comerica Bank acts as the Treasury Department’s financial agent for prepaid debit cards. But those options are there, and at the ready.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For instance, if you go to a restaurant and you have a credit card, probably you will use it because it is more convenient than picking up your phone, starting a transaction or things like that,” Kavakama said. “We Real-time payments continue to gain traction around the world. Case in point: Brazil. PIX has advantages over SITRAF.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Today, accounts payable firm MineralTree announced a collaboration with Visa with a goal of helping corporates pay their suppliers by virtual card. But the commercial card is hardly the most preferred method of payment for suppliers, and that fact could mean adoption challenges for MineralTree and Visa’s new tool. Buyer Control.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Same Day ACH will create a new option for faster payments for all the banks and credit unions across the U.S. Two new same-day settlement windows will be added to the ACH Network, which will increase the actual movement of funds between all those financial institutions from once a day (at the beginning of the day) to three times a day.

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FICO

JULY 28, 2021

If your institution saw an increase in ACH transactions last year, you’re not alone. NACHA, the payments clearing house through which ACH transactions flow, reported a banner year in 2020, posting an 8.2% Additionally, ACH internet transactions rose 15% from 2019 to 2020. As it happens, 2020 was a banner year for ACH fraud, too.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

NACHA released new statistics late last week on growth of ACH transaction volume in the U.S. According to the firm, B2B transactions were a key driver of ACH transaction growth in the third quarter of the year, leading NACHA Chief Operating Officer Jane Larimer to describe the ACH Network as “thriving.”. In all, more than 3.3

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Hack said the now publicly-traded Paya will continue to push forward in the field of accounts receivable automation. Noting the sector is still in its early stages in the B2B sector, Hack said in the press release that Paya’s “differentiated platform” Paya Connect combines “Card, ACH and Check acceptance.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2017

Accounts receivable professionals are preparing for paper checks to decline and automated clearing house (ACH) payments to rise, according to a new report by the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) and the Credit Research Foundation (CRF). The same professionals also predict cards will hold at 12.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Not all that long ago, the hallmark of progress in the back office came as check systems and ACH systems were linked to create biller efficiencies. The conversation came against a backdrop where, at a high level, B2B payments account for $120 trillion globally on an annual basis. Frankly, the story never changes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Many CUs, he said, have seen that members’ spending activity had, until recently, trended toward using debit cards, as the pandemic has heightened fears of financial uncertainty. He noted that credit card payment volume growth rates have remained positive through the last several weeks, at mid-single-digit levels of growth.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2017

It has been 14 months since the first phase of Same Day ACH credits debuted, and in numbers via a joint study by PYMNTS and NACHA, business origination of Same Day ACH credit has been significant, with clear trends in place that show healthy use and demand. For some firms, Same Day ACH remains a matter of prioritization.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2017

There’s much to look forward to as the September rollout of Phase 2 of Same Day ACH (Debit Pull) looms, but David Barnhardt, executive vice president of full-service payment and verification solutions provider GIACT , thinks there’s just as much reason for caution. “I I think people are going to slowly fill it out.”. They wanted to defeat it.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day. First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Leavitt , founder and CEO of Boost Payment Solutions , said commercial card programs are now coming to the forefront of AP departments’ priority lists when delaying payments is no longer the most viable, or effective, cash management option. Optimizing Card Spend. “We’re seeing a lot more of that mentality.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Atlanta-based Repay said it had paid $78 million at the closing of the deal, with another $15 million in payments contingent on how CPS performs during various periods through the end of 2022, potentially pushing the final cost to $93 million.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Leavitt , founder and CEO of Boost Payment Systems , told PYMNTS in a recent Masterclass that businesses large and small that have traditionally relied on the manual processes associated with writing checks or wiring funds to pay their suppliers are increasingly using commercial credit cards for payment instead. The Sum Of The PARTS .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

However, those trend lines soon gave way to growth in the early 2010s and beyond — driven by the digitization of commerce — with the card network’s revenue tripling in the last decade. The goal for Mastercard going forward is figuring out how to expand its reach worldwide and into places that card products haven’t been — and may never go.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Credit and debit card payments processing company Vantiv and Visa announced news on Thursday that they have jointly debuted FastAccess Funding, which allows merchants to more quickly receive settlement payouts. FastAccess Funding is the first merchant payment solution available across Vantiv’s push-to-card platform.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

It’s the decoupled debit card. Merchants paid less when they accepted those cards. Aside from a handful of special use cases , there wasn’t mass adoption of decoupled debit cards, and merchants didn’t end up issuing many. Decoupled debit accounts for very little of ACH volume. And what was the product?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Employers might adopt push-to-card solutions that enable them to equip staff with prepaid debit cards, onto which earnings can be quickly disbursed, for example, while other companies may send salaries directly into payment apps. The demand for faster payments is ringing louder than ever during the economic downturn.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In the continuous movement toward automating B2B payments – and especially payables – the pandemic is pushing firms to examine internal workflows and embrace the touchless process. That led to a partnership with CSI, which integrates payment solutions into ERP and accounting systems to process payments (across virtual card, ACH and check).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

It also pushed our industry to think about ways to provide faster availability of funds to people and businesses in need.”. A lot of what the pandemic did was force our industry to truly be digital, to facilitate frictionless transactions,” TCH Senior Vice President Elena Whisler said in a recent conversation with PYMNTS. “A

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

She added that as consumers lean on merchants, those merchants have started to lean on their banks to offer solutions that are faster and more convenient than simply moving money by check or ACH. And ticket resellers who typically face a multi-day set-up process to get paid can receive funds quickly by providing just a debit card number.

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FICO

MARCH 26, 2018

While e-wallets and person-to-person schemes offer people quick and easy ways to pay, they have been underpinned by pre-existing payment systems, either card schemes or ACH transfers. For example, ACH payments in the USA are cleared three times per day and card payments can take weeks for settlement to the merchant.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

ACH has often been assumed to be the payment rail poised to take over paper checks as the dominant rail in B2B payments. Accounts receivable executives told researchers that they anticipate ACH to make up 45 percent of the payments they receive by 2020, while checks will decline to 34 percent.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

To paraphrase the movie “Top Gun” … “We feel the need … the need for speed.” The payments ecosystem now prizes quickness above all things in a time of cash flow shortages, where each paper check takes an eternity — assuming it arrives at all. Clearly, paper checks aren’t cutting it anymore. We’ve evolved. RTP Doing Its Part for a Quicker Recovery.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

In B2B payments, the commercial card has experienced a dramatic spike in adoption this year as organizations accelerated their digital transformations and, unable to physically enter the office, began to rely on electronic payments to conduct their business. Winter Blues. Spring’s SMB Support. Spring began in dramatic fashion.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Visa has added a new partner in its quest to simplify, digitize and drive costs down in the global remittances space with its real-time push payments platform Visa Direct. The broader goal will be to take the Visa Direct-enhanced offering and work with the card network to scale its offering throughout Europe and worldwide in 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

The letter highlighted that access to the payments systems today is only possible through incumbent intermediaries – the banks and the card networks – which have not kept pace with the needs of consumers and businesses. It flew in on Dec. 14, the Friday before the week before Christmas, so you might not have noticed.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

That’s why Mastercard has been working with public agencies for the last decade-and-a-half via its “marquee” Direct Express platform, which allows public institutions to push funds to citizens via a prepaid solution. We’ve known for more than 10 years that there are issues with mailing checks, which is why we’ve seen over 4.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Leavitt, founder and CEO of Boost Payment Solutions , this is among the largest priorities for today’s accounts receivable departments, and commercial cards are stepping up to meet that demand. One of the biggest advantages of the card rails is that you are virtually unlimited as to how much data you can pass with that transaction.”. “One

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Beyond the particulars of check disbursements or ACHs (and the detailed instructions that accompany any payment between buyer and supplier), Disque said automating payments into enterprise resource planning (ERP) or cash management functions (thus eliminating manual touchpoints) are especially beneficial in a remote working environment.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The new platform includes Mastercard Send, a push payments service designed to rapidly send money in the U.S. debit or reloadable prepaid cards for payment of tax refunds, government aid, healthcare and insurance claims and payments to gig economy workers. and also across borders.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Same Day ACH is now a reality and, with much fanfare, represents the first ubiquitous faster payments initiative in the United States without an attendant regulatory mandate. Saks likened the “early days” of faster payments as one analogous to the advent of credit cards, which eventually shaped the way eCommerce is conducted.

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