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The Year In Data: Measuring 2020’s Payments Innovation

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Key Data Points: 46 percent of SMBs experienced an increase in demand for their products or services. 35 percent of retail businesses have experienced an increase in demand. Accelerating The Real-Time Payments Demand Curve: What Banks Need To Know About What Consumers Want And Need. 31 percent bank via app.

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Payments’ Role In The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Some of them have been mandated by governments, readying for anticipated demand. As a result, he predicted that the entrenchment of faster payments will be a linear progression that moves from consumer-to-consumer (C2C) to consumer-to-business (C2B), then to business-to-consumer (B2C) to business-to-business (B2B).

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Meeting Consumer Demand With Speed-Of-Life Payments

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Direct deposits, push payments, eWallets, same-day ACH transfers, PayPal, Zelle and myriad other platforms and tools are now second nature. Supply and Demand. The ability to keep up with consumer demand is the crux of any capitalist enterprise. In other words, it’s seen some stuff. Alphabet Soup.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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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. Take two announcements from just last week, related to the evolution of faster payments in the U.S. Then came PayPal’s debut of Instant Transfer to Bank.

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When B2B Payments Innovation Is All Talk, No Action

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A notoriously clumsy, friction-filled industry, B2B transactions must forge new paths to boost efficiency as businesses demand global solutions, speed and transparency. Further, in NACHA’s most recent update on same-day ACH volume – which found $87.1

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For Insurance, Faster Payments Means Nothing Without Data

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In particular, a heavy volume of both B2C payments (consumers paying premiums to insurance companies, as well as insurance companies sending claim payouts to individuals) and B2B payments (insurance companies paying service providers) pave the way to a complex mix of payment rails. “We see really high adoption of virtual cards.”

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Deep Dive: AP Processing Delays And How New Payment Innovations Can Help

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Paper-based payment methods such as checks and cash are awkward and cumbersome in either business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions. Manual payment generation is both time-consuming and demanding, tying up personnel who could instead be focusing on other tasks. Manual processing challenges.

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