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 Lockbox services may seem outdated in today’s ecosystem of electronic payments and cloud-based financial management platforms.

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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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AI Rides To Rescue Of Analog Accounting Processes

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Using advanced analytics in the service of cash flow can be a significant aid as treasury operations and AR operations are converging at a rapid clip, Shields noted — which means treasury officials can make better decisions about working capital and how cash needs may be changing within a company (optimizing ongoing operations). “The