PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

While there has been some innovation in wage payment mechanisms as more employers shift away from the paper check toward direct deposit and payroll cards, little has changed about the timing of those payments. ACH Innovation Breaks The Mold. workforce doesn’t look like it used to. Balancing Employer-Employee Needs.

Payroll

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2017

It has been 14 months since the first phase of Same Day ACH credits debuted, and in numbers via a joint study by PYMNTS and NACHA, business origination of Same Day ACH credit has been significant, with clear trends in place that show healthy use and demand. For some firms, Same Day ACH remains a matter of prioritization.

Same Day ACH

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

Senator Elizabeth Warren asks in a campaign ad, ignoring the fact that 93 percent of working Americans have their checks directly deposited into their bank accounts – ready for use on payday – using the ACH network. For most people, it has been a long time since they received a paper check that had to be deposited at the bank.

Real Time Payments

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

That consideration includes assessing the potential benefits and risks that come with the two fundamental types of bank payments: push and pull transactions. This month’s Deep Dive explores how push payments speed transactions, as well as the benefits and potential challenges of their use in real-time payment systems.

Payer

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

based B2B payment solution provider that expanded into North America this year with its prepaid commercial card tools. Speaking with PYMNTS, Managing Director of North America Kieran Draper said employee expense management and contractor payouts have become a valuable niche for the corporate prepaid card. Streamlining Employee Spend.

B2B

PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

That’s why Mastercard has been working with public agencies for the last decade-and-a-half via its “marquee” Direct Express platform, which allows public institutions to push funds to citizens via a prepaid solution. million Americans using Direct Express to capture their disbursements annually,” she said.

Checks

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Employers might adopt push-to-card solutions that enable them to equip staff with prepaid debit cards, onto which earnings can be quickly disbursed, for example, while other companies may send salaries directly into payment apps. The demand for faster payments is ringing louder than ever during the economic downturn.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

For example, many workers who receive their payroll biweekly via a direct deposit on payday or pensioners who receive their payouts on the exact same day count themselves as receiving an instant payment because their money is in the account instantly on the exact day it is supposed to show up. When ‘Instant’ Really Isn’t.

On-Demand

PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

But it will take weeks for all monies to get to everyone, a timeframe that will likely be pushed as paper checks get sent through the mail to the millions of recipients who don’t have direct deposit set up with the IRS. Very slowly. Tax refunds? It’s a heavy lift, but one that must be addressed sooner rather than later.

Blockchain

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

In a long-running series, Ingo Money CEO Drew Edwards has delved with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster into the lures and values of push payments, where money is moved directly onto users’ cards and accounts, on demand. Push payments to cards was highly rated given even the newness of the method. To cut out the cutting of checks?

Direct Deposit

PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Customers, on the other hand, need to be assured that their PII, such as credit card or bank account numbers, will remain safe. . A top goal among payments solutions providers is to make these problems as infrequent as possible — and to do so, many are turning to push payments. . The scenario is reversed for push payments.

Push-to-Card

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

They face an array of options to help them with their acceleration efforts, with some choosing to start delivering payroll via push-to-card offerings or directly into workers’ digital wallets, for example. It is no secret that they are a slow way to deliver funds, however. Vendors are not the only ones feeling the pain, either.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Some got it via direct deposit. Online betting services in the region are now even exploring depositing such sums directly into digital wallet applications on users’ mobile devices.”. The Visa Direct push payments service is likewise an option to disburse PPP funds and other financial relief. People want answers.

Online and Mobile Banking

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

This is the last mile of payments, where a push can get funds where they need to go — literally. Much has been made in this space about push payments , which assures instant and “safe to spend” funds (meaning the payment cannot be reversed) delivered to a consumer’s account. and didn’t really work in the U.S.

Push-to-Card

PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

percent) named direct deposit as their preferred disbursement method for recurring payments, with instant payments coming in as the second most popular method (22.4 percent who prefer getting paid via direct deposit and 22.4 A surefire way of annoying people is making them wait for money. Speedier Disbursements.

Direct Deposit

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Direct deposits, push payments, eWallets, same-day ACH transfers, PayPal, Zelle and myriad other platforms and tools are now second nature. The digital economy is here and, for many consumers, it has become a way of life. But, with this progress comes friction in the form of a payments patchwork. Supply and Demand.

Consumer

FICO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

FIs are in a great position to lead that push by applying resources where they can have the most immediate and long-term impacts. FIs are in a great position to lead that push by applying resources where they can have the most immediate and long-term impacts. FICO Admin. Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45. by TJ Horan. expand_less Back To Top.

Digital Payments

M2P Fintech

MARCH 28, 2024

without requiring a traditional bank account or debit card. without requiring a traditional bank account or debit card. Automated Clearing House (ACH) The ACH is a central system for electronic fund transfers, facilitating swift, secure, and cost-effective movement of funds between financial institutions.

FinTech

PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

The company recently partnered with real-time payments provider Push Payments on a solution that allows gig workers to get paid instantly for their services. Other companies are working together to help this population of workers get access to their wages via payroll cards. Around the Disbursements World.

Payroll

Tearsheet

MARCH 27, 2024

Workers have the option to receive EWA funds at no cost within 1-3 days via ACH, or they can opt to have their direct deposit sent to a reloadable Visa debit card, named Friday by DailyPay. Alternatively, DailyPay charges a fee if employees choose to instantly send EWA wages to a card or account.

Instant Payments

PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

The path to faster payments in the U.S. doesn’t have to be paved with a 500+ person task force analyzing what the world would look like if we were starting from a clean sheet of paper, competing propositions for who’s going to build and operate a new set of rails, or even what sort of spiffy software can make existing rails faster. Yeah, right.

Faster Payments

PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

The attempt to head off those ugly things is what has caused something truly rare in the federal government — bi-partisan, concerted efforts to push disaster relief at a national scale. economy into a recession. There is a bright side to this situation, he said, and one that is important to keep in mind. Probably not. Probably not.

Economy