Electronic Checks

Open banking, the ability for third-party developers to access financial data in traditional banking systems, as defined by Stripe Inc., may provide one component for a new payment type, at least one that has limited use today. Pay by bank, a payment method that enables an online payment without the …

Despite a severe drop-off in check use, 61% of consumers continue to write paper checks and continue to face the threat of check fraud, says Abrigo, a financial-crime prevention and risk-management services provider. Released Tuesday, Abrigo’s survey of 1,059 U.S. consumers also found that 45% of respondents reported being a …

Payments fraud takes many forms, forcing banks and processors to adopt fresh tactics. But sometimes the technology to prevent fraud can be expensive enough to wipe out any near-term expectation of return.  Early Monday, Oracle Corp. launched Oracle Financial Services Compliance Agent, a platform it says can leverage artificial intelligence …

Michael Rhodes has resigned as chief executive and president of Discover Financial Services Inc., effective April 1. Rhodes was “not expected to have a long-term role at the combined company after completion of the Company’s merger with Capital One Financial Corporation,” Discover said in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and …

Apple Inc. on Friday reversed course on Epic Games, saying it would allow the online game developer to build its own app store in Europe for Apple devices. The reversal came as the European Union’s Digital Markets Act took effect last week. In the U.S. market. Apple several years ago permitted Epic …

Zil Money Corp. reported its automated check-payment app, OnlineCheckWriter.com, has passed $70 billion in volume since its inception in 2018. The service relies on various payment methods, including the automated clearing house, real-time payments, and QR codes. The payments platform Nayax Ltd. announced an offering of 3.13 million of its ordinary shares at …

Follet Higher Education, an educational service provider and omnichannel retailer, has selected GK Software SE as its cloud-based point-of-sale provider for its more than 1,000 college campus and online stores in the United States and Canada. Follet will deploy such apps as GK Software’s OmniPOS, which supports mobile POS, self-check-out, …

In testing now, the Abrigo Fraud Detection platform is incorporating artificial intelligence into check inspection and image analysis to help banks manage check fraud. Though checks written fell from 15.5 billion in 2018 to 12 billion in 2021, according to the 2022 Federal Reserve Payments Study, they remain a significant …

Real-time account-to-account payments provider AppBrilliance announced it closed an investment from Truist Ventures, the venture-capital arm of Truist Financial. Terms were not announced. AppBrilliance works with The Clearing House’s Real Time Payments network as well as FedNow, the real-time network from the Federal Reserve. Pay Plantation LLC, whose payment gateway allows merchants to accept e-checks …

Most bankers know that today’s payments are broken. From keeping pace with evolving customer experiences, to navigating the changing regulatory environment, to overcoming competitive threats from nonbanks, many have become so frustrated they are debating whether to abandon some in-house payments channels entirely. Consumers, too, are becoming frustrated with the …