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Finserv Players Multitask With B2B Billers And Payers

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Corporate financial services providers taking aim at accounts payable friction this week pulled double-duty with new tools that also addressed friction for clients’ suppliers. Bank introduced a new eBilling tool also designed both for billers and payers. Bank Targets Both Billers and Payers.

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Mastercard: Collaboration Is Key To Scaling Real-Time Payments

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With speed being the most obvious value proposition of real-time payments capabilities, it’s not difficult to imagine that corporate payers would be eager to embrace faster payments functionality in their accounts payable (AP) departments. And for many firms, that’s exactly what they’re beginning to do.

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AP Automation: The Three ‘P’s’ Of Standing Out In The Crowd

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This can come in several forms, but what’s important, said Fordyce, is to optimize the costs and fees associated with cards, checks, ACH and other rails for all parties involved — not just the payer. Again, noted Fordyce, this can take many forms — from automating invoice reconciliation to addressing a user’s resource constraints.

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AP Innovators Increasingly Turn Attention To Supplier Friction

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This week's look at the convergence between accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) finds this tactic expanding in the corporate card arena, while another FinTech aims to boost cross-border payment traceability for both payer and payee. Tat Capital Eases Card Acceptance For Vendors.

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

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As Biegel explained, a lack of data standardization across payment tools remains a challenge to the reconciliation and cash application process, even when that data is electronic. The lockbox offers an important step toward digitizing data in check transactions, which is key to reconciliation and cash application processes.

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Deep Dive: The Benefits And Challenges Of Real-Time Push Payments

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Consumers, businesses and governments are seeing faster payments as a path to greater convenience and financial security, and this growing demand is spurring payments services providers (PSPs) to meet this need in a swift, secure manner. Payers provide PINs or signatures, which grant recipients permission to extract funds.

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European Council Rolls Out Instant Payments Regulations, Eyeing EU Single Market for Capital

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Payment service providers such as banks, which provide standard credit transfers in euro, will be required to offer the service of sending and receiving instant payments in euro. The regulation takes into consideration particularities of non-euro area entities. This requirement will apply to regular transfers too.