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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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Innovation Eases The Friction Of Global Payment Rails

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. “On the government side, I feel they have been even more successful at implementing ACH, whether it be G2B or B2G payments,” than the private sector, he said. But as innovation targeting the ACH network accelerates, there will continue to be challenges ahead for the public sectors.

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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. The persistence of bank wholesale lockboxes, invented in the 1950s, shows this problem has not been tackled to the same degree as payments between consumers and businesses, Diegelman said.