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TRENDING: For Fitness Pros Pushing Endurance, New Tools To Push Payments

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In an effort to offer rideshare workers faster access to their wages, First Data recently launched a new solution that delivers the money directly onto a debit card. The new Disburse-to-Debit service can push payments over a wide debit card network, enabling rideshare drivers to receive their earnings in real time.

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The Dawn Of A Cashless Global Economy?

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There are issues of transaction security, criminal elements, tax evasion, free flow of capital, access to goods and services and the ability to fully participate in the global economy. adults still prefer to use cash for purchases under $5, while 22 percent use debit cards and 11 percent use credit cards.

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Kicking The Paper Check From Its Public Payment Perch

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In Oregon, Mastercard is working with a department of revenue officials to improve their direct deposit architecture, while in Idaho the desired improvement is a wider project that would tie tax, healthcare and other types of public disbursements into an online platform. “We The main challenge in innovating public payments in the U.S.

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Why State And Local Governments Struggle To Shred The Paper Check

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Fifty-one percent of United States consumers stated in the most recent PYMNTS Disbursements Satisfaction Report that they would prefer to receive tax refunds, child support payments and other government payments through instant payout methods. Instant payments are lauded for their convenience, ease and most importantly, for their speed.

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State And Local Governments Wrestle With Faster Payments

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The Oregon Department of Revenue favors ACH but still mails a ton of checks for its disbursements. More states are starting to use recurring digital payments as the means by which tax refunds and other government monies are paid out. States’ Rights and Digital Dollars. Treasury and revenue departments in multiple U.S.

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Food Stamps Online: The $75B Grocery Game-Changer?

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Those who are unbanked pay to cash their checks, to get money orders to pay their bills and to buy and use prepaid cards. The situation creates something of a catch-22 for those in the lowest tax bracket — can’t stop being poor with saving, can’t save money until one stops being poor. Is there any way out of that?

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Fintech Fundings: 12 Companies Raise $240 million Week Ending June 25

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HQ: Portland, Oregon. Canopy Tax (formerly Beanstalk). Tax & accounting practice management. Tags: Tax, advisor platform, marketing, client services, accounting, SMB. Latest round: $12 million. Total raised: $15.2 Source: The Oregonian. Payments risk & compliance management. HQ: Palo Alto, California.