Last night the San Francisco Treasury Management Association (TMA), the Silicon Valley TMA, and the Peninsula TMA (all local affiliates of the Association for Financial Professionals, or AFP) hosted Peter Crane, of Crane Data at our annual dinner meeting. Over...
In response to "unambiguous corporate demand" the Federal Reserve announced plans to incorporate remittance data into wire payment formats by the end of 2010. This is a major milestone in the migration of business-to-business (B2B) payments...
I am pleased to announce that the upcoming B2B Payments Workshop hosted by Forte Financial and Glenbrook has been approved for up to 17 CTP/CCM recertification credits by the Association of Financial Professionals . Learn more about the upcoming B2B Payments...
The conversion of B2B payments from paper to electronic is finally gaining momentum. Key industry players (MasterCard, American Express, JP Morgan Chase and others) are launching new products aimed squarely at the stubborn paper based B2B transaction volume. New...
Carol Coye Benson at Glenbrook returned from the annual AFP Conference convinced that the time may have finally come for electronification of B2B payments. Her observations are posted...
One of the reasons I went to the AFP (Association for Finance Professionals) conference in Boston in October 2007 was to get updated on the progress of the migration of business to business (B2B) payments from checks to electronics. As a general statement, progress...
Here's an update on NACHA topics from this morning's sessions at the Association for Financial Professionals conference being held this week in Boston. Check to ACH Conversion Some of us in the industry will remember a brief and ill-fated “Check-ACH Coalition” in...
Results of a new survey from the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP), released in conjunction of the annual AFP conference in Boston this week, reveal that business are gradually adopting electronic payments. The study is a follow up to a similar survey...
In Boston at its annual conference the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) announced a partnership with IBM to develop a comprehensive treasury benchmarking program. The multi-year project is being underwritten by Deutsche Bank Global Transaction Banking,...
There are 6,000 people at this year's AFP (Association of Finance Professionals) conference in Boston, and it feels like half of them must be smashed into this morning's session on "The Retail Merchant's Customers' Payment Options: Deciding Between C21, BOC, ARC...
