Check 21 Lockbox Receivables Remote Deposit Capture Technology

Distributed Capture Panel Discussion (TAWPI Conference)

[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Distributed Capture Panel Discussion Wally Vogel, President, Creditron Mary Hockridge, Executive VP, NetDeposit Brandon […]

BI and Performance Management

Unlocking the Value of Your Customer Data (TAWPI Conference)

[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Keynote: Unlocking the Value of Your Customer DataMalcolm Netburn, Chairman and CEO of CDS […]

Check 21 Remote Deposit Capture

Distributed Capture: Trends, Opportunities & Challenges (TAWPI Conference)

[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Distributed Capture: Trends, Opportunities & ChallengesDavid Peterson, Executive VP, Goldleaf Financial Solutions [program blurb] […]

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Managing the Changing Mix of Payments (TAWPI Conference)

[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Keynote Address: Managing the Changing Mix of PaymentsBrian Hurdis, President, Metavante Image Solutions [program […]

Caught My Eye Management Research Round Up Technology

Prediction Markets Improve Forecasting and Risk Management

(graphic courtesy of The New York Times) Corporate decision makers are honing their accuracy by tapping into the collective wisdom of employees and customers via web-based prediction markets. An article to today's New York Times explains: Corporate prediction markets work like this: Employees, and potentially outsiders, make their wagers over the Internet using virtual currency, […]

BI and Performance Management Receivables Technology

Democratization of the Dashboard: Free Up Working Capital by Bringing BI to Receivables

Information for everyone! The latest Treasury & Risk explores how mid-level managers are enjoying the drill down capabilities and real time metrics reporting of business intelligence dashboards. A case study featuring Dow Corning demonstrates how dashboards support a company wide dispute management system, providing dispute coordinators and managers in sales, customer service, credit and collections […]

Banking Research Round Up Treasury & Cash Management

Ranking Treasury & Cash Management Providers (Global Finance Magazine)

Each year Global Finance magazine ranks the best treasury/cash management banks by region and by service category. The March 2008 issue arrived on Friday (just in time to land on the top of my weekend reading pile) and here are the highlights: Bank Rankings CITI Best Overall Bank for Cash Management (Global Winner) Best Bank […]

Investment Strategy

Tighter Lending Standards Challenge Corporate Finance

The March issue of CFO magazine is focused on banking, or more pointedly, how companies are paying the price for the subprime crisis. There is an article on how poor risk management at banks contributed to the crisis, but more interesting was a thorough exploration of the impact on corporate lending: Credit Crunch As banks […]

ACH Decoupled Debit NACHA

ACH @ POS

I spoke last week with Elliott McEntee, President and CEO of NACHA about two current issues – NACHA’s reaction to “de-coupled debits” and the progress of the Secure Vault Payments program. Decoupled Debit – Background Decoupled debit programs, announced by both Capital One and HSBC (as issuers) and Tempo (as a processor) take a normal […]

Payments News

ACH Check Clearing: Round 2

Yesterday American Banker assessed NACHA's Deposited Check Truncation (DCT) pilot scheduled to start 1st Quarter 2008. This is a second attempt to clear checks electronically over the ACH network as an alterative to image exchange. The previous attempt to clear checks via the ACH network sponsored by the Check ACH Coalition died early this year. […]

B2B Payables Payments News Treasury & Cash Management

MasterCard's Latest B2B Offering Targets Mid-Market, plus Large Corporates

Today MasterCard announces its Payment Gateway enabling businesses to pay their suppliers with either Purchase Card or ACH transactions and deliver remittance data. Unlike rival B2B services launched this year by AmEx and JPMorgan Chase, MasterCard is targeting small and mid-sized companies as well as large corporates, and it is selling the product through financial […]

Payments News

The Buzz Surrounding Revolution Money

Today's big payments story is Revolution Money (formerly GratisCard) a new internet payment system backed by AOL co-founder Steve Case, among other high profile supporters, including former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, former Charles Schwab CEO David Pottruck, former Fannie Mae CEO and former director of the Office of Management and Budget, Franklin Raines, and former […]

Guest Post Linda Elliott Writings

Doc Searls Provides a new ‘Clue’ for the Identity World

by Linda Elliott The exhibition floor at a conference can tell you a lot about the state of development of the topic. Exhibitors front and center on the exhibit floor at Digital ID World this week are MSFT, Novell, Oracle, AOL, while the smaller players, who were the only ones a few years ago: Ping, […]

Banking Project Management Remote Deposit Capture Research Round Up

7 Habits of Effective Remote Deposit Deployments

Celent's latest remote capture deposit report highlights the gulf between the very few financial institutions that have successfully deployed RDC solutions and the remaining 3000+ whose results are lackluster (see chart below, courtesy of Celent). 7 Habits for Successful RDC Deployment 1. A robust vision for the RDC opportunity2. Senior management sponsorship and visibility3. A […]

Banking

WSJ: Diversification aids Big Banks during market upheaval

Today's WSJ explores the extent to which diversification has protected universal banks – with a broad spectrum of business lines and enormous balance sheets – from the upheaval caused by the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and the lack of liquidity in debt markets. The article focuses on the big three: Citigroup, JP Morgan […]