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What's Your Down Payment? If you're wondering what percentage of what you're paying for a house should be your down payment, know that there's no single best amount, and it will likely vary according to your situation. |
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Selecting an Electrical Contractor What to do when it is time for the "wire to meet the walls" |
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MasterCard Cashes In On Recurring Payments Merchants follow the card company's lead to improve their bottom lines by cutting processing costs and increasing customer retention with automatic payments. |
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July 12, 2010
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Online Bill Payment Tops Among Internet Households Synergistics study shows preference toward online payments. |
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December 14, 2005
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Citi Brings PayPass to Cell Phones Expanding its contactless payment offerings, New York-based Citibank is now offering its customers the Citi payment tag, a MasterCard PayPass-enabled sticker that can be placed on the back of cell phones. |
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W3C Works On Web Payment Systems The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) launched the Web Payments Working Group to discuss improvements to the online checkout and payment processes on the web. |
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TOH's 6-Point Plan for Getting the Best 2005 Looking for a good home project or repair contractor? Follow our step-by-step plan and you could land someone every bit as good as the ones we found. |
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Pay Me! How to get the money you're owed when no one seems to have any. |
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Your Down-Payment Portion Don't put down 20% on your new home unless it makes sense for you. |
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Centralizing Payments With SOA Recent standards and advancements in imaging, real-time data access and service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology have now made it possible to centralize payments without costly replacement of systems. |
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What's Your Down Payment? Learn to determine how much you should put down when buying a home. |
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BofA Tests Online Banking, Online Payments for Corporate Clients Online global payment hub expected to go live with entire customer base in the first quarter of 2011. |
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Don't Fall for These Contractor Lines Sure, there are honest contractors. But there are rip-off artists too. Learn the words that are warning signs. |
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Snag Your Cash In the global marketplace, do you know how to get paid without losing your shirt? Here are some ways to reduce your risk of getting swindled by overseas customers. |
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Keeping Tabs Clients and customers who take 60 days or more to pay up are killing your cash flow. The solution? When payment times start to creep up, take proactive measures. |
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July 2008
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B2B Payments Face Major Transformation Across the globe, market forces such as innovation, the need for efficient cash flow management models, cross-border trade and new industry standards are shaping the future of the B2B payments industry. |
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March 31, 2004 |
FFIEC Information Technology Examination Handbook The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has issued the "Retail Payment Systems (RPS) Booklet" to provide updated guidance on the risks and risk management practices applicable to financial institutions' retail payment activities, including checks, card-based electronic payments, and other electronic payment media. |
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2004 Fed Forecast: Enhanced Electronic Payments Claudia S. Swendseid, SVP of the Fed's Financial Services Policy Committee, spoke about the organization's goals for 2004 and what it is currently doing to move the financial services industry gracefully from paper to electronic checks. |
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Financial Institutions Must Treat Payments Processing as a Business Line to Gain Competitive Differentiation As competition in the payments space continues to heat up, more and more banks will take an enterprise-wide view of the payments business and corresponding technology. |
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Banks to Allow E-Bill Pay Customers to Pay With Cards The growing popularity of online bill payment services presents a revenue opportunity for banks. |
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Remodeling Without a Contractor: Homeowners Clinic I've never worked with an architect before -- do I need one for this job? Also, is it a good idea to split some of the work with a contractor? |
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New Payment Methods Give Old-fashioned Checks and Credit Cards a Run for Their Money Emerging technologies are currently gaining momentum while paper check usage is in decline, according to a new study by the Federal Reserve... |
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Jack Henry Expands Electronic Bill Payment Options Its new NetTeller Bill Pay online bill payment solution includes guaranteed bill payments by ACH and expedited overnight check delivery. |
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Global Payments Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of payment processor Global Payments slipped more than 10% in intraday trading as investors digested worse-than-expected earnings. |
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Small Payments, Big Commitment Think before you fall for an attractive low payment on a longer-term loan. |
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Money Buzz 11/05 Controlling online payments, expensive medical plans and more. |
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Consistency, Consensus Needed on Industry Profits Although there is a widespread perception that defense contracts yield healthy profits, in reality, the way government officials view profits can be drastically different from the way industry measures that profit. |
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Are Visa and MasterCard Really Under Attack? I wouldn't bet on it. These moats are still safe. |
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Don't Pay for Bi-Weekly Mortgages Most companies charge for a bi-weekly mortgage plan. Why pay when you can do it yourself and save hundreds of dollars? |
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Electronic Payments Accelerate Cash Flow Adept property managers are encouraging the use of electronic payments and customizing options to meet residents' needs. Electronic payments help close new business faster, accelerate the availability of funds, reduce delinquencies, and enhance security. |
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Lee Conrad |
New Industry Index Aims to Quantify The Progress of Corporate Payments Companies still make most of their payments with paper checks, but new VICOR-commissioned research suggests a major change is afoot. Restless bankers are more than ready. |
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Bibit Gets Funding Despite Cash Squeeze The Dutch online payment service provider will use the funds to push into the United States... |
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Banks Can Get Quick Fees for Fast Payments Many banks will likely adopt expedited electronic payments over the next year or so. Consumers pay a fee that's a fraction of a late penalty in exchange for having a bill removed from his or her checking account balance in real time. |
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March 2010
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Slipping A Card Into The Payments Chain For all the money that bank IT departments are pouring into treasury management innovation, a lack of corporate tech literacy and a strategic disparity between buyers and sellers anchors many corporations to an old school B-to-B paradigm dominated by paper checks. |
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CyberSource: Bidding for Growth The developer of electronic payment technologies, has seen its stock price steadily rise from $6.50 to $11.10 this year. The company is benefiting nicely as more transactions move online across the globe. |
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A Hub for New Channels Automation Hero Fundtech has developed a payment services hub solution called Global PAYplus, which provides SOA-based native support for payments that operate across multiple regions, channels and interfaces. |
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July 2006
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Pay It Forward New payment technologies make spending safer and easier. |
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I Can't Afford My Taxes! Some suggestions on what to do if you owe more than you expected. |
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March 30, 2010
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Fiserv Offers Online Bill Pay Widget Bank customers of Fiserv's Checkfree online bill payment software can now incorporate it into their online banking homepage, according to Fiserv. |
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Stocks for the Rest of Your Life Can you really buy and hold, forever? If you are thinking to do so, look at dividend paying companies. Most importantly, a company's dividend payment comes from its operational success, gives you a way to make money even when your stocks move down. |
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