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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. What is the role of a lockbox today? Modernizing the Lockbox. What is its historical role?

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Deluxe CEO: B2B Payments Will See Resurgence In Paper Checks

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Much innovation in B2B has been focused on getting rid of paper checks. At least for now, companies are not writing as many checks, but that’s not due to any wholesale shift to digital channels, according to McCarthy. Lower business volumes translate, naturally, into lower check volumes. What Happens In A Recession.

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Innovation Eases The Friction Of Global Payment Rails

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This week’s examination of the latest in payments rails innovation finds financial service providers innovating on top of existing rails to address the friction of ACH, checks and other bank transfer infrastructure. ACH Gets A Boost In The Public Sector. Invoiced Tackles The Friction of Check.

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Billtrust CEO On Delivering The Perfect B2B Payment

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Second, AR professionals working from home could no longer run credit cards from their desks or accept paper checks in the mail. And third, a further slowdown of the postal system added even greater friction to the paper check, leading to longer days sales outstanding (DSO). But optimization involves more than just ditching paper.

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How Banks Can Benefit From Partnering With FinTechs

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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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Payments’ Role In The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Commercial payments, for example, have long relied on inefficient practices — like paper stubs that accompany paper checks, or lists of invoices paid and payments allocated to each invoice. Despite that, there is a better option, as roughly 40 percent of B2B payments are still done by paper checks. How is this different than a wire?

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Commercial Cards: It’s All About The Data

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As B2B payments migrate away from the paper check in their own digitization journey, a supplier’s opportunity to access valuable transaction insight grows. Ironically, this is one way in which cards — despite their support for transmitting electronic data along with payment — have fallen short, even compared to paper checks.