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B2B Check Use Rising Despite Approach Of Same Day ACH

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Same Day ACH is ready for its debut at the end of the week, and for some, its launch signals the next step for the payments industry to become faster and more digital. But a new report finds that, even as Same Day ACH is fast-approaching, businesses are actually increasing their use of paper checks.

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Mastercard Embraces Existing Rails To Drive B2B Payments Value

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Maybe ACH ? Or maybe even fast ACH? Often, the payment method replacing paper is ACH payments, a substitution Anderson said will be accelerated by RTP. The work is still far from done because the CPG company needs to pay the new supplier. Does it do so by old-school wire transfer? Relatively new procurement cards?

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What New Payment Rails Miss About Solving B2B’s Remittance Challenge

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The drive to digitize B2B transactions with technologies like virtual cards and ACH can certainly connect businesses to more transactional information, however rarely is that data moved seamlessly and with enough context. There’s nothing more valuable than remittance data. This is what businesses are asking for.

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Why Faster Payments Isn’t The Answer To Accounts Receivable Delays

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When NACHA first released its Same Day ACH capability, only about 6 percent of the first 2 million transactions made in the service’s first 11 days were B2B payments. is a lack of remittance data, he said. With faster payments functionality beginning to take off in the U.S., As Rimilia expands into the U.S.,

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Wells Targets ACH Data Friction In Accounts Receivable

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Those features include remittance advice matching, ACH and wire repair and an integrated receivables file. The tools aim to reduce paper in corporate finance operations, Wells explained, and nix manual remittance and data entry.

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Billtrust CEO On Delivering The Perfect B2B Payment

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The industry thinks, if we can just get this payment on ACH or card, the problem goes away," reflected Lane. With ACH , the biggest challenge often comes in the form of remittance data being emailed separately from the movement of funds. But optimization involves more than just ditching paper. And that's just not true.".

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How Small Businesses Ride Their Payment Rails

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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