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Remember “cash, check, or credit card”? Ah, the simpler days of yore. As reported in PaymentsJournal.com, we are experiencing more payments choices at the consumer level than ever before. Indeed, their article starts out with a parade of options: “Swipe, dip, tap. Credit, charge, debit, prepaid, reloadable. Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, Starbucks, Dunkin’.…
Read MoreJust when you thought you heard it all when it comes to financial crimes, here comes … accidental? A Pennsylvania couple thought they were tokens on a Monopoly board when they had $120,000 mistakenly deposited into their bank account. As far as they were concerned, they’d passed “GO” and picked a pretty good Community Chest…
Read MoreThis summer, price transparency advocates finally made progress with a new executive order on “Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First”. In a RevCycleIntelligence article, several hospitals warned that prices may actually increase with such an order — not surprising, in that reforms many times have unknown ramifications due to…
Read MoreHealthcare IT News interviewed key interoperability executives from four high-profile EHR vendors – Cerner, DrChrono, eClinicalWorks, and Epic Systems – and discussed how they address system interoperability and overall health IT interoperability. Epic, for instance, offers its Happy Together feature, which allows patients and providers to see data from multiple sources in a single, merged…
Read MoreThe US real-time payments network currently reaches about 50% of the population, and was on track, via private sector channels, to provide complete coverage by the end of next year, as noted in an article at Forbes.com by Ike Brannon, a senior fellow at the Jack Kemp Foundation.
Read MorePaymnts.com reported recent data (from West Monroe Partners) that found 77 percent of banks are already putting AI solutions to use in some way. Count Chase as one of the forefront adopters of Artificial Intelligence solutions and technology. Chase is embracing AI and ML to help customers conduct business while preventing fraudsters from making off with data or financial…
Read MoreLet’s face it: Human beings are indispensable, but we are learning that in order to bring the level of service that is expected in today’s marketplace, machines and analytics have to work together and deliver quicker, more intelligent solutions than we’ve previously seen or experienced. This is the root of Artificial Intelligence and its value…
Read MoreChecks are still ubiquitous across generations. They remain popular, and they are — in spite of repeated premature eulogies — still alive and well in the world of treasury and B2B. Let’s say you have a check payment from a friend, or you’re running a small business on check payments, or you’re still getting a…
Read MoreThe ability of fraudsters to create an image of a check is not necessarily a new technique. What is newsworthy is accessibility.
Read MoreWhen Facebook announced its Libra payment system, reactions were varied, to say the least. Can a gigantic company that cannot be trusted to safeguard our heretofore private information be ready to handle cryptocurrency? PYMNTS.com wonders if another giant company, Walmart, might have a better chance to succeed in the payments field, particularly in light of…
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