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Making payments is the inevitable consequence of making purchases and an essential and integral part of the financial supply chain. A payment is the transfer of value from one party, a person or…

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Payments - Receipts

Bitcoin futures and the future of bitcoin

by Bija Knowles

Bitcoin futures trading is here but the cryptocurrency remains a side-show for corporate treasury and won't be used in corporate payments any time soon – for six very good reasons

Payments - Receipts

SCT Inst to gain critical mass by 2020 – EPC poll

by Bija Knowles

The SEPA Instant Credit Transfer is expected to take off quickly and will reach a critical mass in Europe before 2020, according to the results of a web poll by the European Payments Council

Payments - Receipts

How will you use SCTInst?

by Bija Knowles

The EPC has listed 20 examples of how businesses and individuals will use the Eurozone's new real-time payments mechanism, the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer Scheme (known as SCTInst)

Payments - Receipts

Hot on the heels of the digital revolution

by Bija Knowles

Embracing the changes that come with e-payments can make treasury relevant to the customer experience, as discussed by two corporates in the auto sector and oil sector.

Payments - Receipts

Finance teams should embrace automation of supplier invoices

by Bija Knowles

Many financial jobs are under pressure from automation and while the main concern is the threat to job security, machines will take on some of the most tedious and frustrating jobs in finance

Payments - Receipts

Poor integration = poor solution

by Jack Large

FIS and Tieto show how vital integration is as payment factories are being merged with cash and liquidity management solutions

Payments - Disbursements

Cancerous late payment behaviour continues

by Jack Large

Staff at Kantar, WPP, have been encouraged to wait until next year to pay outstanding invoices. Do you prefer exploiting SMEs too?

Cash & Liquidity Management

Same Day ACH payments up 140% in US

by Bija Knowles

The volume of Same Day ACH payments more than doubled over the past two months to 10 million in October 2017, compared to a transaction volume of 4.1 million in August

Payments - Receipts at POS

E-commerce to rise to $708 billion in US sales by 2021

by Bija Knowles

US consumers are rapidly adopting mobile and online methods of buying goods and services, with 60 per cent of those aged 18-44 making a mobile purchase in the past 90 days