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How AR Can Usher The Legacy Lockbox Into The Digital Age

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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. Lockbox services may seem outdated in today’s ecosystem of electronic payments and cloud-based financial management platforms.

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What ‘Work From Home’ Means For Paper-Based AR Departments

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The trend presents a unique conundrum for organizations’ order-to-cash operations, especially when businesses’ own clients continue to pay via paper check : The check may be in the mail, but how can a business apply that cash if there is no one at the office to open it? Lockbox Data Headaches. ” asked Biegel.

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Lucinity secures patent for federated learning AI, enabling secure data sharing

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In 2022, the company received a patent for another piece of AI, their Secure Lockbox , which features pioneering homomorphic data encryption. With these advancements in federated learning and data security, Lucinity continues introducing new disruptive innovations to enhance financial crime compliance and global intelligence sharing.

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Banks Pair Up To Improve Age-Old Business Friction

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While B2B payments are quickly digitizing, paper checks continue to retain a significant share of the market. In an effort to address the friction of paper checks, Citizens Bank & Trust is collaborating with CheckAlt to launch lockbox and corporate treasury services.

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FIs Embrace FinTech Options To Bolster Business Banking

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Apollo Bank Adopts CheckAlt Lockbox Technology. The bank recently announced a partnership with CheckAlt to adopt its lockbox technology, allowing corporates to automatically accept, process and reconcile check payments. As open banking continues to proliferate across Europe and the U.K., PNC Acquires Tempus Technologies.

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Healthcare's Back Office Catches Up To The Industry's Digitization Push

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In the accounts receivable (AR) function, Franco noted that Nurx implemented lockboxes in order to centralize the receipt of paper checks from insurance companies. As the healthcare space broadens its support for telehealth and other types of remote services, digitization continues to be at the forefront of the sector's evolution.

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Payments’ Role In The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Kresse attributes this inertia to entrenched processes, both at the enterprise level and within some FIs, especially where lockbox services (including receiving and scanning payments) are large revenue generators. Despite that, there is a better option, as roughly 40 percent of B2B payments are still done by paper checks.

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