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Risks of Direct Deposit Payroll Processing

Agile Payments

Recent news has once again exposed the reality that there are inherent risks for a third party ACH processor in handling and processing payroll transactions for a company who handles payroll for multiple companies or even a single company's needs.

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Decoding the FCA’s Safeguarding reforms: Practical steps for payments and E-money firms

The Payments Association

The reforms ensure robust safeguarding practices, bolster consumer trust, and address risks like fund shortfalls during insolvency. While these measures seek to address key risks, such as fund shortfalls during insolvency and delays in fund distributions, they also bring increased regulatory burdens and operational complexities.

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What is ACH Credit and ACH Debit and How Do They Work?

Stax

It’s like a direct deposit from one account to another, but unlike wire transfers, they are not subject to a fee by the processing banks. The payer gets the benefit of the ACH system guaranteeing their direct payment, so there is minimal risk and ACH debit transactions are usually completed within two days of initiation.

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Digital Fraud Attacks Rise 17% in Financial Services, Driven by Payment and Account Creation Fraud

Fintech News

A new report by LexisNexis Risk Solutions explores the state of digital fraud, revealing a 17% increase in digital fraud attacks within the financial services sector in 2023. Payment fraud, in which stolen payment credentials are used to make illegal transactions, rose by 9% YoY, signaling heightened financial risks for banks.

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Modernizing Government Payment Systems for Efficiency and Trust

Clearly Payments

Security Risks: Older systems are more vulnerable to cyber threats, putting sensitive citizen data at risk. Example 5: Social Services Disbursements A provincial government in Canada modernized its social services disbursement process by offering direct deposit and reloadable payment cards.

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Tailwinds Gather For Digital Dollars, Digital Bank Accounts (At The Fed)

PYMNTS

The stimulus checks — some of them, anyway — are coming, via direct deposit, to tens of millions of Americans’ bank accounts over the next several weeks. For those who have not provided direct deposit information to the IRS in recent years, checks — the paper kind — will be cut and sent to recipients.

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Deep Dive: The Pressures Pushing Banks To Modernize Their Payments Infrastructures

PYMNTS

Direct deposit is the most popular among consumers at 47 percent, with PayPal, Venmo and Zelle — all of which take little to no effort from customers to receive payments — collectively accounting for 27 percent. Eight percent would be even more willing if such deposits came through in minutes.