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Deep Dive: Instant Payments Confront Long Path To Ubiquity
Deep Dive: Instant Payments Confront Long Path To Ubiquity
January 23, 2020  |  Disbursements

Payments made with cash and checks are dropping in volume — the use of cash alone declined 40 percent over the past five years in...

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How kimkim Uses Faster Payments To Win Gig Worker Loyalty
How kimkim Uses Faster Payments To Win Gig Worker Loyalty
January 22, 2020  |  Gig Economy

Gig workers will make up a full half of the American workforce by 2028, responsible for creating online content, designing webpages and conducting local food...

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How Shutterstock Fast-Tracks Royalty Disbursements For Its 1 Million Contributors
How Shutterstock Fast-Tracks Royalty Disbursements For Its 1 Million Contributors
January 21, 2020  |  Disbursements

More than 90 percent of U.S. consumers now prefer to receive digital payments over paper checks. Cash and checks persist as the disbursement methods for...

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This Week In Payments: New Frontiers — Visa And Plaid; Goldman And Marcus; And Big Doings ‘Bout SMB Payments
This Week In Payments: New Frontiers — Visa And Plaid; Goldman And Marcus; And Big...
January 17, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

With Retail’s Big Show in New York, earnings season kicking off and banks reporting on the State of the State 2019, there was no shortage...

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Credit Unions Place Big Bet On AI And Biometrics
Credit Unions Place Big Bet On AI And Biometrics
January 16, 2020  |  Credit Unions

A new decade — and for credit unions (CUs), might this be the decade of data as a conduit of trust, a way to cement...

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The Instant Verdict Is In For Legal Disbursements
The Instant Verdict Is In For Legal Disbursements
January 14, 2020  |  Legal

The fact that instant disbursements are overwhelmingly preferred by consumers isn’t much of a surprise. When stacked up against a paper check, money that is...

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Top News In Payments: Apple Shares Hit Record High; CA Denies Lending License For Sezzle
Top News In Payments: Apple Shares Hit Record High; CA Denies Lending License For Sezzle
January 03, 2020  |  News

In today’s top payments news, Apple’s share price hit a record high above $300 on Thursday, “buy now, pay later” company Sezzle was denied a...

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When Instant Payments Are Just Payments
When Instant Payments Are Just Payments
January 03, 2020  |  Faster Payments

In just three years, one word, one idea, has rewritten the payments rulebook: “instant.” Driven by faster phones, ingenious apps and sheer market force, the...

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Top News in Payments: Amazon Seeks Patent For Hand Recognition; Record Holiday Retail Sales
Top News in Payments: Amazon Seeks Patent For Hand Recognition; Record Holiday Retail Sales
December 27, 2019  |  News

In today’s top news in payments, Amazon applied for a patent for hand recognition software, and retail sales reached new heights thanks to record online...

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