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Wave Teams With Check to Upgrade Small Business Payroll
Payroll // April 03, 2024

Payroll infrastructure company Check has teamed with Wave, a money management platform for small businesses. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (April 3), will let the more than 300,000 small businesses using Wave access “full-service payroll functionality” in all 50 U.S. states. “Payroll has long been a growth hurdle...

Check Debuts Fraud Protection Tools for Payroll Companies
Payroll // December 04, 2023

Embedded payroll company Check has introduced several tools to help companies scale payroll businesses. The tools, announced Monday (Dec. 4), include credit and fraud protection, embedded setup, and embedded support and are designed to help platforms address issues like fraud management and detection, data migration, compliance and support....

Payroll Startup Check Raises $75M in Stripe-Led Series C
Investments // February 16, 2022

Check, a payroll infrastructure company, announced Wednesday (Feb. 16) that it raised $75 million in a Series C round led by Stripe. The funding round also saw participation from existing investors Bedrock, Thrive and Index. Check’s services allow for platforms to put payroll services in...

B2B Payments Today: Freshworks Hikes IPO Range; Check and Procare Team on Child Care Center...
B2B Payments // September 21, 2021

Today in B2B payments, Freshworks’ initial public offering value could be close to $10 billion and open finance platform mmob adds iwoca. Plus, asset manager White Oak acquires trade finance firm Finacity, FloBiz grabs $31 million for growth and Check and Procare improve child care...

Interviews & Exclusives
Ingo CEO: Banks, FinTechs Need Better Data To Fight Mobile Check Deposit Fraud

November 23, 2020
Even before the pandemic — and the stimulus bills that sent trillions of dollars via check into consumers’ (and not a few fraudsters’) hands — the alarm bells were tolling. The FTC said way back in February (feels like a lifetime ago!) that check scams were on the rise. And even before then, as evidenced by an […]

Quick Reads
Wave Teams With Check to Upgrade Small Business Payroll

April 03, 2024
Payroll infrastructure company Check has teamed with Wave, a money management platform for small businesses. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (April 3), will let the more than 300,000 small businesses using Wave access “full-service payroll functionality” in all 50 U.S. states. “Payroll has long been a growth hurdle for small businesses due to its complexity,” Check said in […]

Check Debuts Fraud Protection Tools for Payroll Companies

December 04, 2023
Embedded payroll company Check has introduced several tools to help companies scale payroll businesses. The tools, announced Monday (Dec. 4), include credit and fraud protection, embedded setup, and embedded support and are designed...

Payroll Startup Check Raises $75M in Stripe-Led Series C

February 16, 2022
Check, a payroll infrastructure company, announced Wednesday (Feb. 16) that it raised $75 million in a Series C round led by Stripe. The funding round also saw participation from existing...

Google Searches For ‘How To Write A Check’ Are Soaring

April 23, 2015
With all this talk about the seemingly endless age of the paper check, it may come as a surprise to some that Google searches for “how to write a check”...