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Merchants and other businesses that accept checks are adopting electronic truncation?also known as remote deposit capture?so quickly that one expert observer expects the number of installed systems to more than double next year. Indeed, says Bob Meara, a senior analyst at Boston-based researcher Celent LLC, demand for remote capture is …
Read More »Image Volume Mounts Steadily for SVPCO As It Courts Smaller Banks
In a sign that check image exchange continues to make steady progress, SVPCO has reported its national network processed 56.5 million items in June, an 11.1% increase over May's volume. Total dollar volume for the month reached $157 billion, up 4% over May. Daily average items, a keenly watched indicator, …
Read More »Verizon Looks to POS System to Cope with Rising Walk-in Payments
Hoping to process a growing volume of bill payments customers make in its 76 stores, Verizon Communications Inc. is installing a new point-of-sale system that when complete will speed up check transactions, offer customers real-time payment posting, and allow the telecommunications giant to archive transaction information from multiple payment forms, …
Read More »Growth Spurt Has SVPCO Eyeing 100 Million Monthly Items by Year’s End
Another indication of the increased trafficking of electronic check images through image-exchange networks has emerged with a report from SVPCO that its Image Payments Network handled 50.8 million items in May, up 44.4% from April's volume. Average daily traffic hit 2.3 million images, a 31.2% jump from the previous month. …
Read More »How Endpoint Exchange Is Riding the Rising Image-Exchange Wave
At a time when image exchanges are reporting dramatic jumps in volume but are struggling to get members to receive as well as send check images, Endpoint Exchange in Oklahoma City is reporting double-digit monthly growth rates as well as a base of 3,000 receiving financial institutions. “The name of …
Read More »The Fed Unveils More Check Closures As Volumes Continue to Drop
With electronic payments continuing to eat into paper check volumes, the Federal Reserve Banks announced on Wednesday another in what has become a series of closures of check-processing facilities. Some time next year or in the first six months of 2008, the Fed will shut down check processing in San …
Read More »An ACH-Image Proposal for Checks Roils Banks And Networks
A proposal to merge electronic check images with automated clearing house records, which first came to the fore at an industry trade show earlier this month, could become a reality?at least in a limited way–relatively soon. Backers of the plan, which include executives with at least two of the nation's …
Read More »Tiny LendingTools.com Has Big Ambitions for National Image Exchange
A small Wichita, Kan.-based software company is getting set to take a big step in bringing image exchange to small financial institutions around the country. Starting with the north central region of the U.S., LendingTools.com Inc., a provider of Web-based systems for image processing and origination of automated clearing house …
Read More »Small Banks Adopt a Wide Spectrum of Electronic Payments
Small banks are adopting electronic-payments technologies at a rate that rivals, and in some cases exceeds, that of their larger competitors, according to a survey released this week. Two-thirds of the nation's community banks are processing checks under the rules of the Check Clearing Act for the 21st Century (Check …
Read More »Image Volume Ramp-up in ’06 Beats SVPCO’s Own Projections
A faster-than-expected ramp-up in transaction volume is forcing the country's largest image-exchange network to refigure its growth projections. The Image Payments Network, operated by SVPCO, a unit of New York-based The Clearing House Payments Co. LLC., handled 35.2 million check images in April, up 20.6% from March, according to statistics …
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