Check Payments news and trends

Contractors May Move to Modernize as Manufacturing Boom Spurs Construction Demand
B2B Payments // April 14, 2023

Government incentives are spurring nationwide industry investment as manufacturers race to find space to fulfill demand.  As first reported last week (April 8) by the Wall Street Journal, the industrial real estate market is booming, as manufacturing-related construction reached a dizzying $108 billion last year. New factories...

Treasury Department Aims to Limit Federal Agencies’ Use of Checks
Digital Payments // January 09, 2023

A federal agency is proposing more limits to the government’s use of paper checks. In a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that is to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday (Jan. 10), the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service said that present...

Is 2020 Healthcare’s Year To #KillTheCheck?
Podcasts // February 07, 2020

At the dawn of a new decade, healthcare stands poised to embrace digital payments, and finally kill the check. Instant disbursements are fast cementing their place as a favored payout method for consumers across all manner of business-to-consumer (B2C) interactions. In an interview with Karen...

Instant Payments Are Killing The Check (Not So Softly) 
Alternative Finances // November 07, 2017

No one likes getting a check. No one. And we have the data to prove it. When ranked against all other possible methods of getting payments, the recently launched PYMNTS Disbursement Satisfaction Index™  ranks checks dead last, with a satisfaction score of 4.4 out of 100 possible points by the more...

Interviews & Exclusives
Contractors May Move to Modernize as Manufacturing Boom Spurs Construction Demand

April 14, 2023
Government incentives are spurring nationwide industry investment as manufacturers race to find space to fulfill demand.  As first reported last week (April 8) by the Wall Street Journal, the industrial real estate market is booming, as manufacturing-related construction reached a dizzying $108 billion last year. New factories are reaching completion nationwide as billions in government incentives encourage […]

Is 2020 Healthcare’s Year To #KillTheCheck?

February 07, 2020
At the dawn of a new decade, healthcare stands poised to embrace digital payments, and finally kill the check. Instant disbursements are fast cementing their place as a favored payout...

Instant Payments Are Killing The Check (Not So Softly) 

November 07, 2017
No one likes getting a check. No one. And we have the data to prove it. When ranked against all other possible methods of getting payments, the recently launched PYMNTS Disbursement...

Quick Reads
OnlineCheckWriter.com Launches Automated Positive Pay Service

July 20, 2023
B2B payment platform OnlineCheckWriter.com has launched a new security feature. The automated Positive Pay service streamlines cash management and boosts fraud detection for businesses, the company said in a Thursday (July 20) press release. “Our automated Positive Pay service empowers businesses to take control of their cash management and eliminate fraud effectively,” OnlineCheckWriter.com CEO and founder Sabeer Nelli said in the release. […]

Treasury Department Aims to Limit Federal Agencies’ Use of Checks

January 09, 2023
A federal agency is proposing more limits to the government’s use of paper checks. In a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that is to be published in the Federal Register...