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 Lockbox services may seem outdated in today’s ecosystem of electronic payments and cloud-based financial management platforms.

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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. Lockbox Data Headaches. Yet payers include a vast array of information with their check payments, and lockbox providers relay that data in different ways.

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Santander Commercial Bank Delivers New Products and Digital Capabilities to Drive More Seamless Client Experiences

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Santander” or “the Bank”) announced today that is has expanded its suite of digital cash management solutions to enhance the commercial client experience while reducing its overall cost to serve. ” said Michael Lee, Senior Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Commercial Banking at Santander Bank.

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Paystand Acquires Teampay for Giant Leap Toward B2B Payments Revolution

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This unique combination of Paystand’s strengths in payments and cash management with Teampay’s industry-leading approach to expense and AP management will leverage the blockchain to sidestep existing payment rails. “To

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Bending Card Rails For B2B Payments Optimization

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But shifting priorities among buyers and suppliers have elevated the opportunity for cards to meet changing cash management needs. It’s going to be in a format that is very cumbersome for the supplier to bring into their systems,” he noted, adding that lockbox services and manual data entry costs hit businesses hard.

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Why Corporate Banks’ Should Seize Purchase-To-Pay Data Opportunity

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Cichy also pointed to additional bank solutions, like lockbox operation, payment processing and commercial card offerings, into which Palette’s P2P solution is linked, promoting cohesion in banks’ corporate offerings. Historically, opportunities to wield this kind of data have been limited for traditional FIs.

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