PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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 Lockbox services may seem outdated in today’s ecosystem of electronic payments and cloud-based financial management platforms.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

When it comes to treasury market offerings, banks have historically started wholesale and retail lockbox businesses. But, as payment types and payment channels have grown to become more electronic, the amount of lockbox payments is declining rapidly. Most commonly, those payments are sent by automated clearing house (ACH).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2018

“The intent of the organization is to help payers better identify [the] payee information they need in order to make electronic payments,” he said in an interview, adding that the directory aims to be “payment agnostic” and support payments made via a variety of rails, including FedWire, ACH, SWIFT, lockbox and, yes, paper check.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

According to Reed, Deluxe’s lockbox services process $2 trillion worth of paper check payments every year, and there is no silver bullet to transitioning that volume to electronic payment method all at once. But addressing payee needs is just as critical to easing the digital migration. “It really minimizes the disruption.”

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