Going Green with Electronic Payments – Part I
If you are reading this, you are, most likely, familiar with some of the reasons to “go green” and most of the reasons to migrate to electronic forms of payment. The fact that you’re still reading...
View ArticleGoing Green with Electronic Payments – Part II
In part I of my “Going Green with Electronic Payments” blog article, I described that migrating check payments to electronic can help your company go green (in addition to helping your company reduce...
View ArticleVirtual Card Programs – What Exactly Are They?
Corporations remain under continuous pressure to reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies. One of the easiest ways to do this is by migrating payments from check to electronic. However, I am...
View ArticleVirtual Card Programs Part II: How Corporations Use Them to Earn Revenue
In Part I of my virtual card blog series I described the nature of a virtual card program. In part II, I will describe how corporations can use virtual card programs to help generate revenue. More...
View ArticleVirtual Card Programs Part III – How They Differ From PCards & Ghost Cards
In Part I of my virtual card blog series I described the nature of a virtual card program. In Part II, I described how corporations can use virtual card programs to help generate revenue. In Part...
View ArticlePayments Fraud Remains High
The eighth annual AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey report was released in March. This valuable survey, underwritten by J.P.Morgan, provides information and trend analysis of payments fraud. The...
View ArticleB2B Payments: Shifting Potential Liability
There are a lot of things that keep chief security executives up at night including disasters, theft of intellectual property, budgets, compliance, training and securing mobile devices. Added to this...
View ArticleLatest Insight Into Payment Remittance
The Aite Group recently conducted a survey that analyzed remittance practices, benchmarks and perspectives of US and International corporations. The findings confirmed some commonly held views but...
View ArticleWhy Outsource B2B ePayment Adoption?
SunGard recently conducted a study to better understand how corporations were addressing the various challenges around B2B ePayment adoption and the migration to ACH and virtual cards. The study...
View ArticleTips for Selecting an Integrated Payments Platform
In my recent blog article,“Why Outsource B2B ePayment Adoption?”, I conveyed the results from a recent SunGard study around B2B ePayments and why more and more organizations are opting to outsource the...
View ArticleEasily Calculate the ROI of Migrating Checks to Electronic Payments
Check printing is expensive. It is time consuming, labor intensive, and comes with the added costs associated with paper stock, ink, and postage. There is no doubt that migrating to electronic payments...
View ArticleUnderstanding Health Care EFT Standards: Part II
In-Band vs. Out-of-Band Remittance Delivery… In Part I of my Understanding Healthcare EFT standards blog, I identified several major obstacles for health care providers to adopt EFT (electronic funds...
View ArticleUnderstanding Health Care EFT Standards: Part III
Which Message Format to Use for Health Care EFT?… In Part I of my Understanding Healthcare EFT standards blog, I identified several major obstacles for health care providers to adopt EFT (electronic...
View ArticleB2B ePayments: Virtual Card Best Practices
I have talked about the benefits of virtual card programs on past blog posts and have even provided a link to an ROI calculator for companies to calculate their cost reductions and potential rebates by...
View ArticleExpansion of FedACH® SameDay Service
The Federal Reserve has announced that it is expanding the FedACH SameDay service to offer greater opportunities for same day clearing of ACH transactions. Effective April 1, 2013, the expanded...
View Article2013 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey
The 2013 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey has been published and this year’s survey results indicate an overall decrease in the incidence of fraud attempts. This downward trend is due in part to...
View ArticleCommon concerns that surface with a payments project, Part 1
We encounter some common concerns when we’re working with companies to implement a payments project. Outsourcing or revising A/P processes can seem daunting, but we can address some of the larger...
View ArticleCommon concerns that surface with a payments project, Part 2
In Part 2, I’ll discuss concerns that surface when working with companies to implement an ACH or check printing payments project. Check to ACH: The benefits of moving from check to ACH payments are...
View ArticleWhen the US Payment is the Foreign Payment
The North American B2B Payments landscape is somewhat unique, due in large part to the significantly high use of checks as opposed to ACH, wires or cards. The shortcomings of checks are well known and...
View ArticleBest Practices for Combating B2B A/P Fraud
In my last post, I discussed the recent findings published in the 2011 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey which concluded that the rate of payments fraud attacks remains stubbornly high. Continuing...
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