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On Second Thought…. Checks – We Love 'Em!

April 22, 2016

In the interest of equal time – Checks? We love ’em!

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Kill the Check? "Kill the Check!" Says electronic payment advocate…

April 19, 2016

“Just because checks have existed since at least 13th century Venice and 19 billion of them were used to pay people and businesses in the U.S. last year doesn’t mean that we should keep them alive. We, as a country, somehow mustered up the courage to move past the horse-and-buggy and 8-track tapes – I think we can dig deep and find it within ourselves as a payments ecosystem to kill the check.”

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The Paper Check is Dead; Long Live the Paper Check

April 12, 2016

Snapcheck founder Ken Kruszka describes describes the continuing popularity of the paper check as “ludicrous,” but contends that they have their advantages.

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2015 Top 5 Payment Trends Are Actually Happening …

March 24, 2016

What were the top five payment trends according to BAI’s 2015 Payments Connect Publication?

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The Growing Value Proposition Around Mobile Deposit

March 17, 2016

Our friends at RemoteDepositCapture.com completed a new poll on mobile RDC and found that among those participating in their survey, 28% put the value of mobile remote deposit capture (mRDC) at up to $1.00 per transaction, and just 3% said using mRDC is of no value to them.

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Remote Deposit Capture Leveraged to Address the "Underserved"

March 15, 2016

Fifth Third Bancorporation is deploying Remote Deposit Capture to attract new customers from the ranks of un- and underbanked Americans, collectively known as financially underserved.

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The Readability Challenge: New Software Breakthroughs Virtually Eliminate Exceptions

March 7, 2016

One of the biggest hurdles in maintaining self-serve devices — ATMs, Remote Deposit Capture (RDC), and kiosks, to name a few — is ensuring that any negotiable item is converted and deposited correctly. Money orders are often the worst offenders, but there are still many checks with poor dropout features. Additionally, low-end scanners are more prone to poor images and MICR rejects due to cheaper imaging components.

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A check is still the best P2P payment vehicle? Some say, "Sad, but it’s true!"

March 1, 2016

The vision of P2P payments is like a dream for mobile app vendors and bank executives who love digital payments. Let’s say you want to give or pay money to a friend, relative, or even small business. I recently went through this exercise several times.

And guess what? To my surprise, the best option was still a check!

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Not in the cards? Here's what the ATM of the future will look like

February 26, 2016

ATM technology is responding to the fact that, in spite of consumers’ embrace of plastic, there is still a lot of love for cash (Chase plans to respond to the desire for cash access by introducing check-cashing ATMs in late 2016.). Checks are still getting some luvin’ as well!

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The Key to Controlling Medical Claims Billing Costs? INTEGRATION

February 17, 2016

It’s a safe bet that there will be a great deal of talk at this year’s HIMMS Conference (February 29 – March 4 in Las Vegas) regarding integration in medical claims billing.

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