Payout news and trends

Digital Disbursements and Payouts Chip Away at Killing the Check
Digital Payments // March 28, 2023

With paper check fraud reportedly doubling in 2022, the need for digital disbursement options has never been more urgent — or more desired by consumers, many of whom in key demographic groups like Gen Z have never even possessed a paper checkbook. Because of their historic ubiquity,...

61% of Millennials Want Real-Time Payments — the Challenge Is Acceptance
Real-Time Payments // March 16, 2023

Making digital payments has become an everyday process for millions of consumers worldwide, representing a giant leap in convenience, security and accessibility over traditional methods such as cash or payment cards. Simply having digital payments is not enough, however. More than ever before, speed differentiates...

How Digital Insurance Claim Payouts Can Help Business Owners Weather Tough Times
B2B Payments // February 11, 2021

The insurance claims check doesn’t have to be in the mail anymore — and it can’t be for SMBs waiting for funds after a disaster, says Azuraye Wycoff, executive manager of small-scale moving company Small Haul. In the Digitizing B2B Payments Tracker, Wycoff discusses why...

Disrupting Traditional Payroll For A New Economic And Global Normal
Faster Payments // May 12, 2020

For all the human and business impacts caused by the global coronavirus pandemic, the crisis has also been instructive, particularly in illustrating the shortcomings in systems that worked just fine — until they didn’t. The massive and simultaneous global shift to digital has put a...

Interviews & Exclusives
Digital Disbursements and Payouts Chip Away at Killing the Check

March 28, 2023
With paper check fraud reportedly doubling in 2022, the need for digital disbursement options has never been more urgent — or more desired by consumers, many of whom in key demographic groups like Gen Z have never even possessed a paper checkbook. Because of their historic ubiquity, however, checks continue to be a default for many companies […]

61% of Millennials Want Real-Time Payments — the Challenge Is Acceptance

March 16, 2023
Making digital payments has become an everyday process for millions of consumers worldwide, representing a giant leap in convenience, security and accessibility over traditional methods such as cash or payment...

Quick Reads
If Antitrust Issue Stops Merger E-Trade Would Get $525M From Morgan Stanley

February 23, 2020
If E-Trade Financial Corp walks away from its $13 billion deal with Morgan Stanley, the massive bank will come away with a $375 million breakup fee, according to Reuters. Morgan Stanley entered a deal Thursday to buy electronic trading platform E-Trade, which would be the biggest acquisition by a major Wall Street bank since the […]

Hyperwallet Supports MONAT Global’s Merchant Partner Payouts

March 10, 2017
Global payouts provider Hyperwallet announced that it has entered into a payouts agreement with MONAT Global to expand the company’s payment options for its independent merchant partners and to help...

PYMNTS’ Daily Data Dive: Infosys Payout Misstep

February 10, 2017
Technology services firm Infosys is facing questions regarding peculiar payments made to the company’s CEO and other executives. In response, the company provided a statement that shareholder input is what’s guiding its decision...

Swindled Madoff Investees Pocket Another $1.2 Billion In Payout No. 6

December 07, 2015
Holiday presents may be coming early for victims of Bernard Madoff’s infamous and massive Ponzi scheme. The distribution of the $1.2 billion payout began on Friday (Dec. 4) and is...