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A few months back we wondered whether Santa would take cryptocurrency – this was in reference to a rather bleak Huffington Post article called “The Bitcoin Hoax“. Pessimists aside, ever since Bitcoin appeared, the ever-growing ecosystem of cryptocurrency has continued to expand and spawn new varieties — some that sound like sci-fi movie titles and…
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The array of digital payment vehicles available is dizzying — Google Pay, Apple Pay, PayPal, Venmo — the list is long. Still, checks remain popular. And, it turns out, a better payment instrument when it becomes necessary to stop payment due to error or suspected fraud! MoneyWise describes easy step-by-step directions for canceling or stopping…
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Over the past decade, we have seen a tremendous evolution in healthcare, particularly in healthcare payments and revenue cycle management. But how far have we come since 2014? In 2014 we sat down to talk to Mark Brousseau, President of Brousseau & Associates, to get his perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing healthcare payments…
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For all the talk of Artificial Intelligence capabilities and their value to organizations and industries of all sorts, it should be noted that, according to the 2019 MIT SMR-BCG Artificial Intelligence Global Executive Study and Research Report, nine out of ten companies have made some investment in AI, but 70 percent said they have seen…
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MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group recently collaborated on a white paper exploring AI as a tool entitled Winning With AI (you can download the paper HERE). Subtitled Pioneers Combine Strategy, Organizational Behavior, and Technology, the white paper is a nice encapsulation of their global survey. Conducted in Spring 2019, the survey attracted…
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Accelerated funds availability allows depositors to instantly access the money they deposit via check. That way, there’s no waiting period for the check to clear and no penalty if the check writer’s account has insufficient funds. An article at BAI Banking Strategies by Victoria Dougherty, director of Payment Management Solutions, Fiserv, opens by wondering why…
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Is cash becoming an endangered species? And, if so, is that good? Mike Orcutt, an associate editor at MIT Technology Review, has written what he calls an elegy for cash at the MIT Technology Review site, and includes some points to ponder regarding whether the demise of cash could actually be a negative development, as…
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PaymentsJournal.com took a look at the world of corporate payments and listed nine things corporate treasurers can expect in 2020. This includes: a categorical rise of real-time banking (No. 1) explosive new records for the volume of payments managed by corporate treasurers (No. 3) a warning that fear of fraud and security breaches will increase…
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The Federal Reserve released the 2019 Federal Reserve Payments Study Executive Report on December 19, 2019. Based on 2018 compared to 2015, aggregate payment growth in “core noncash payments,” including debit card, credit card, ACH, and checks, were up as a whole by 6.7% representing an incremental 30.6 billion transactions valued at $97B! Comparing actual…
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In today’s world, abbreviations are utilized on a daily basis. Simple contractions such as “don’t”, “couldn’t”, and “we’ll” are all commonly used in the English language. In the banking world, abbreviations are most common in the date field, as many in society choose to abbreviate the year from 01/08/2020 to 1/8/20. Seems harmless, right? Maybe…
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