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Who’s Safe From Amazon Infiltration – Not Even CHECKS?

March 14, 2018

The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that Amazon may be looking at entering the checking account game. Sanvada reports online for those who do not subscribe to the WSJ: A report from the Wall Street Journal has claimed that the retail giant is working on what it calls a “hybrid-type checking account” designed for…

“The Experience” of an OrboGraph Conference

March 12, 2018

Have you heard about “the experience” of an OrboGraph conference? The 2018 Healthcare and Check Payment Technology Conference is again shaping up to be an amazing event. This year, we are hosting the conference on May 7th-9th, 2018, at the Union Station Hotel in Nashville, TN. For a glimpse into the past, see videos and photos from our…

Are Mid-Sized FIs Failing To Climb The Innovation Curve?

March 5, 2018

Is your financial institution ready for payment innovation? The Innovation Readiness Playbook from PYMNTS.COM surveyed US financial institutions and created a gem for strategic and tactical considerations. Like many surveys, you can take a positive or negative spin on the data and critique the questions. For example: Is this a wake-up call to mid-sized financial institutions that…

The End of Free Checking as We Know It?

February 27, 2018

You’ve probably seen the headlines: Bank of America ends free checking option, causing customer uproar Bank of America Is Eliminating a Popular Free Checking Account A major bank eliminates free checking – – a blow to the lower income consumer who depends on checks and checking accounts, right?  Would it spur industry-wide changes, similar to…

“The Future of Payments – Get Ready for a Wild Ride”

February 22, 2018

Let’s get crazy!  OK, maybe a podcast from BAI Banking Strategies isn’t crazy, crazy, but if you are into payments, this could be the best 10-15 minutes of the year! Managing editor Lou Carlozo speaks with Tommy Marshal, FinTech Lead for North America at Accenture about their new payments report entitled Driving the Future of Payments: 10 Mega…

OrboGraph Highlighted in “Top 10 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Solution Providers to Watch in 2018” by The TECHNOLOGY HEADLINES

February 14, 2018

Check and healthcare payments ripe for adoption of new technologies. Billerica, MA, February 15, 2018 – OrboGraph, a premier developer and supplier of intelligent electronic and paper automation leveraging recognition technologies, image validation and check fraud detection for the U.S. check processing and healthcare revenue cycle markets, was recently highlighted in the February edition of The…

Now Checks Are Causing Hardships?

February 14, 2018

The “death” of the check is still way behind schedule, according to many organizations that predicted the end of paper checks many years ago. We keep reporting that checks are still popular when they were supposed to have been dwindling years ago. (That’s the boring part of the post) The latest installment in PYMNTS’ Kill…

OrboGraph Embraces AI

February 7, 2018

THE TECHNOLOGY HEADLINES features an article examining OrboGraph’s utilization of AI technologies and the effect it’s had the check and healthcare lines of the business. With OrboGraph’s main focus on automating payments, the company looks at AI as a means to improve efficiencies into the entire payment mix and to facilitate electronification of payments, which ultimately…

Digital, Branch and Call Center Metrics; Are We Making Progress?

January 31, 2018

Cornerstone Advisors recently released their 2017 Cornerstone Performance Report for Banks. On the heels of this report, Gonzo Banker website offers their insight into how banks’ operational performance has changed over the past 10 years based on the information contained in the report. There’s a long list of metrics that have changed dramatically, but they narrowed it to 10…

FED Study Shows Underutilized Mobile Capabilities, RDC Stays Strong

January 23, 2018

The Financial Brand website summary of mobile banking report shows a disappointing rate of mobile payment and payment adoption among consumers. Consumer enrollment in mobile banking services is growing as more individuals rely on their mobile phones for access to financial services. While growing, the total enrollment and usage percentages for most organizations still falls short…