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Ohio Treasurer Suspends Bitcoin Business Tax Payment Program

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Sprague reportedly recommended to the State Board of Deposit that it request the Ohio Attorney General for a formal opinion on whether the tax payment program constituted a “financial transaction device” under state law.

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OpenPayd Loops Into SEPA For Corporate Payments

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With direct access to the SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) payment program, OpenPayd has bolstered its payments functions, according to reports. Business clients of the banking-as-a-service company will get access to payment processing throughout the 36 countries taking part in the program.

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Deep Dive: How Customer Behaviors Drive Demand For Mobile Disbursement Innovation

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Millennials are among the top financial app users: 94 percent of surveyed millennials use P2P apps like Venmo and Zelle. There is also a growing appetite for mobile apps that can receive instant disbursements for a variety of use cases, including receiving rebates and settling insurance claims.

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B2B Not A Vital Part Of Real-Time Payments Innovation, Yet

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Faster payments schemes across the globe are placing new definitions on what it means to be fast, especially as more initiatives heard towards real-time transacting. In the three years since FIS began this annual report, the number of real-time payments programs more than doubled, researchers noted.

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Wells River Savings Bank To Access TCH’s RTP Network

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“As a nationwide network, it’s important to SHAZAM that our clients have access to the RTP network and accompanying data so they can offer intelligent, real-time payments capabilities to their account holders,” Janet LaFrence , the faster payments program manager at SHAZAM, said in the announcement.

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Healthcare Looks To 5G For Cost Control

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The new 5G mobile network technology has started to make its initial foray into healthcare, and at a time when issues of cost, efficiency and accessibility are gaining even more focus than was the case before. As all that happens, potential use cases for 5G in the healthcare space are taking at least rough shape.

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From Cash To Real-Time Payments

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Forty countries: That’s how many places either have real-time payments programs in progress or live. Using RTP or RTP infrastructure to encourage more digital payments could provide other solid use cases for real-time payments — and it’s important to note that RTP is, essentially, only as good as the use cases say it is.