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From Manual Mayhem to Mobile Magic — How Mobile Payment Solutions Can Help Your A/R Operations Find New Luck at the End of the Receivables Rainbow

Fumbling with cash, waiting on paper checks, handling collections, and managing manual data entry and cash application...

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Customer Payment Preferences

The Customer is Always Right: Adapting to Evolving Customer Payment Preferences within Your A/R Organization

“The customer is always right” — a timeless adage that we’ve all heard before. Even though it most often refers to the...

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Advanced Check Processing, The Key to Your Business’s HeA/Rt

Roses are red, violets are blue, advanced check processing solutions will automate your paper-based receivable...

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New Years 2023 Blog

New Year, Better Payments: Three Resolutions for Your Payment Processing and A/R Operations in 2024

5...4…3…2…1… As we count down towards the new year, there’s no better time for businesses to pop the champagne of...

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Christmas Blog 2023

Deck the Halls with Digital Documents: Enhanced Document Processing + Paper-based Remittance Automation

Ho, ho, ho! It’s that magical time of year when holiday decorations adorn our homes, and we’re filled with festive...

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Electronic Payments Blog

Cash in on Convenience — Electronic Payment Processing Trends for 2023 & Beyond

The Proliferation of Electronic Payment Methods and Channels, Understanding Customer Payment Preferences +...

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Halloween Blog

Devilish Dashboards & Spooky Systems: How A/R Automation Can Fix These Ghastly Inefficiencies

Boo! Halloween is just around the corner, and we thought it’d be the perfect time to scare away those ghastly legacy...

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The Benefits, and Challenges, of Automating Your A/R Operations. How to Decide the Right Solution for Your Business.

The way businesses manage payment acceptance and processing within accounts receivable (A/R) operations is constantly...

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API Blog

Why APIs? 4 Ways Embedded Payment Acceptance Technology Can Help Your Business’s Accounts Receivable Operations

In today’s digital age, payment acceptance technology across the B2B landscape has increasingly evolved to fit the...

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Thanksgiving Blog

5 Reasons We’re Thankful for Accounts Receivable Automation Software (& Why You Might Be Too)

Even though the highlight of the holiday season is oftentimes food, Thanksgiving, contrary to popular belief, is about...

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Halloween-Blog

Three Horrors of Siloed, Legacy Accounts Receivable Systems, & How to Solve Them

Over the years, accounts receivable (A/R) organizations have routinely utilized multiple, disparate systems and legacy...

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5 Accounts Receivable Inefficiencies You Need to Change Today

The evolution of payment methods, channels and customer preferences across the B2B payments landscape is continuous and...

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Accounts Receivable Technology Trends for 2022 & Beyond

The Modernization of Check Acceptance, Proliferation of Electronic Payments, Automated Cash Application & What It All...

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The Evolution of Distribution Accounts Receivable Operations

Checks Changing Channels, Online Payments Proliferation, Automated Cash Application & How Integrated Receivables Brings...

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Fin + Tech

Fin + Tech | Partnership Models for Financial Institutions to Deliver Truly Integrated Receivables Solutions

There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to accounts receivables (A/R) operations; largely because no two...

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3 New Year’s Resolutions for Your A/R Operations in 2021

Unfortunately, the odds are stacked against most people who intend on making and keeping a New Year’s resolution each...

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5 Choices

5 Things True Integrated Receivables Is, and 5 Things It Isn't

Over the last decade, “Integrated Receivables” has generated quite a bit of buzz, not only in the Fintech landscape,...

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Modernize Your A/R

4 Ways to Modernize Your A/R Operations Right Now

The digital revolution is impacting virtually every industry across the board, and the way payments are made, managed,...

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Social Distancing

How Integrated Receivables Solutions Help A/R Operations Thrive in a Time of Hyper Disruption

These are truly unprecedented times. Things that were our collective 'normal' only matter of weeks ago, now seem like...

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Time to Adapt

Integrated Receivables: Six Tips to Help Your A/R Operations Adapt and Evolve

What Charles Darwin had to say about the evolution of species applies to business enterprises as well: adaptability is...

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Tankersley Foods

A Distributor's Commitment to Doing ‘Whatever it Takes’ Improves A/R Efficiencies

Tankersley Foodservice is committed to doing “Whatever it Takes” for customers. That includes offering an array of...

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Rural Mutual

Eliminate Float, Improve Cash Application with Mobile RDC Solutions

Rural Mutual Insurance Company knows a thing or two about managing a remote workforce accepting payments. Founded in...

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SPN Blog

FTNI News: What's the most interesting company in the Silicon Prairie? The answer may surprise you.

Originally published on SiliconPrairieNews.com on 11/28/2018. Financial Transmission Network, Inc. (called FTNI) is an...

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B2B Payments Landscape

Industry Data Illustrates an Evolving B2B Payment Landscape & Escalating Need for Integrated Receivables

The old saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This saying may be true for more than just a few things in...

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On Banks and FinTechs; A Partnership Manifesto

If there is one thing we have learned over the history of our business, it is that no two businesses’ accounts...

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Win Win

True Integrated Receivables—A Win-Win-Win for Banks, Corporate Customers and FinTechs

For a growing number of banks, the accelerating demand for integrated receivables solutions, and the vast operational...

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Holy Grail

The Journey to Attaining the “Holy Grail” of A/R – Straight Through Processing

Many people want to achieve 'straight-through processing' (STP), but what does that really mean? As we’ve pointed out...

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Breaking the Bank

Breaking the Bank: How to Eliminate Siloed Systems & Deliver Holistic, Truly Integrated Receivables Solutions

For many corporations (and banks), integrated receivables isn’t simply a buzz word any longer—it’s become a reality...

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A Look Back

A Look Back at 2017; Growth, Partnerships & Setting the Standard for Integrated Receivables

2017 was another successful year for our team here at FTNI, with record sales growth fueling the expansion of both our...

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12 Gifts Part 2

12 Gifts of True Integrated Receivables (Part 2)

It’s nearing Christmas Eve, and while many good little boys and girls will have to wait to open their presents just a...

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12 Gifts

12 Gifts of True Integrated Receivables (Part 1)

Christmas carols are a love/hate relationship, there is no middle ground. You either absolutely love this time of year,...

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Steps

From the Front Lines: Three Steps to Achieving Straight Through Processing, Leveraging RDC, EIPP & Recurring Payments

Remote deposit capture (RDC) of checks has many benefits—not least, reducing the manual labor required for processing,...

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Fintech Investments Signal Ongoing Evolution Among Banks; Still Fall Short of Delivering Holistic Receivables Solutions

Lately, banks have been taking some noteworthy strides to innovate in the AR space by investing in new fintech...

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Multiple Industries

Adoption of Truly Integrated Receivables Solutions Grows Across Multiple Industries

Each day brings new announcements and news from the ever-changing world of payment technology. With so much new...

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Insurance

Transforming Insurance A/R Operations with Truly Integrated Receivables Solutions

If you’re an insurance company, your customers probably want to do everything online, from making claims to paying...

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IR Defined

True Integrated Receivables—Defined. How to Separate Truly Integrated from Dashboard.

We’re delighted to see that the topic of integrated receivables is receiving more attention from the industry these...

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In the News

FTNI News: A Guide to Remote Deposit Capture Solutions

Originally published on remotedepositcapture.com on 3/30/17. There is no one set of criteria for businesses to use in...

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FTNI News

FTNI News: New Partnership Brings A/R Automation to Horicon Bank Clients

Originally published on pymnts.com on 2/22/17. Horicon Bank and Financial Transmission Network, better known as FTNI,...

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MBJ Blog

FTNI News: Talking Electronic Payments & Integrated Receivables with Midlands Business Journal

Electronic payments continue to be a key focus for both B2C and B2B organizations as companies look to evolve their...

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Efficiency

Moving Beyond Silos for A/R Management

Originally published on PYMNTS.com on 4/1/2016. In managing accounts receivables, corporate banking has been marked by...

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Making A/R Silos a Thing of the Past

Originally published on PYMNTS.com on 1/4/2016 The movement toward electronic payments is an inexorable one, and even...

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End Inefficiences

Put an End to A/R Inefficiencies with True Integrated Receivables

Originally published in the "Payments at the Edge" eBook, a 2016 PYMNTS.com Report. The time-tested routine of invoice...

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True IR Honeycomb

A Checklist for Identifying and Selecting True Integrated Receivables Solutions

2015 B2B ecommerce sales in the US are expected to exceed $780 billion1—twice as much as B2C ecommerce sales—and that...

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Cost of Inaction

The Growing Need for True Integrated Receivables Solutions

Believe it or not, people (and companies) are still using checks to pay their bills. In fact, in 2014, 93 percent of...

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Silos

Tearing Down B2B Payment Silos with Integrated Receivables Solutions

Originally published on PYMNTS.com on 10/20/2015. For a corporate treasurer to be able to view all of his or her...

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CHECKS

Leveraging RDC to Prepare for the Future and Optimize the Present

Checks may not be the next new thing—in fact, check use is on the decline—but believe it or not, remote deposit capture...

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In the Cloud

In the Cloud, A/R is a Business Driver, Not Just a Cost Center

Originally published in Financial Operations magazine, Spring 2015 issue. These days, when it comes to accounts...

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Leveraging RDC

Leveraging RDC to Smooth The Path to Straight Through Processing

Originally published in Payments Business Magazine (May/June 2015 Issue) Integrated Systems Lead to Faster...

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Clouds

Simplifying Receivables in the Cloud: 2 Real-World Examples

US companies are wasting $1 billion each year because their receivables and payment processing systems are siloed and...

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The Payments Solution: Straight Through Processing

Part 2 of the 3-part True Straight Through Blog Series To sum up the payments problem: Clients are using multiple...

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Software in the Cloud

Making Cloud-Based Payment Processing Pay Off for Your Business

There’s never been a better time to start taking advantage of the new technologies that are emerging within B2B...

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E-Payment

The Payments Problem: Streamlining Has Led to Siloing

Part 1 of the 3-part True Straight Through Blog Series Here at FTNI, we’ve been in a lot of conversations lately...

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NTC

Donation Processing Success Story Showcased at Nonprofit Technology Conference

NTEN’s 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference Brings Nonprofits and Providers Together to Explore How Technology Impacts...

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B2B Mobile Payments

The Path to B2B Mobile Payments: Compliance, Security and More

Whether you’re one of the world’s largest corporations, a small Internet store or somewhere in between, doing business...

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Moving Payments to the Cloud

Today’s growing portfolio of payment channels continues to add new levels of complexity to payment processing—often...

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Ever Changing Face

Content Round-Up. Integrated Receivables, Mobile Payments and More.

It was a busy but productive 2014 at FTNI. We know that many of you were equally busy and may have missed some of the...

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Power of Mobile Payments

5 Ways to Unlock the Power of B2B Mobile Payments

Let’s face it, the traditional processes surrounding the processing and management of business-to-business accounts...

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Writing Checks

It’s Time to Streamline Your Check Processing

Once upon a time, when a customer decided to pay with a check, the business receiving their payment would deliver that...

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The Ever-Changing Face of Payments

As we take a look at recent trends, data and what we are seeing with our own customers, a few things are certain. As...

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Mobile, ePayments and Transaction Security Top-of-Mind at AFP 2014

We’re back from Washington D.C. after the 2014 AFP Annual Conference—what a show! Many thanks to everyone who attended...

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FTNI to Exhibit at AFP 2014 in Washington D.C.

Join Us at AFP 2014 and Enter to Win a Kindle Fire HD FTNI is excited to connect with treasury and finance...

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Credit Card Payment

A Small Business Guide to Unraveling Card Processing Services

The decision to accept credit and debit transactions is a big one – and enlisting the help of a provider who...

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Analyzing and Selecting E-invoicing Solutions

Paper is passé. Savvy business people understand that paper pushing is inefficient and expensive. They are also coming...

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Increase Loyalty and Reduce Cost with Recurring ACH

Many enterprises now offer recurring ACH as an option when agreeing to payment terms – especially for service contracts...

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What You Need to Know About Merchant Credit Card Processing

In today’s world, eCommerce is no longer the unwieldy, difficult to implement process of days past. New technologies...

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Overview of Integrated Payment Processing … and Why You Should Care

What is Integrated Payment Processing? Integrated payment processing solutions offer your business the ability to...

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Important Advantages of Straight-Through Processing

Originally published on 8/20/2014. Updated on 2/1/2023. Straight Through Processing (STP) is the latest trend in...

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Piggy Bank

8 Corporate Money Tips & Tricks To Get You Paid

Slow collections on corporate receivables can cost your business big money. The expenses incurred due to poor cash...

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Email Receipts

How Simple Email Receipts Can Drive More Revenue and Business

We all know the touted bonuses of email receipts – they’re environmentally friendly, more convenient for the customer,...

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Technology Spotlight: MICR Check Matching

Originally published on 7/31/2014. Updated on 2/16/2022. FTNI’s ETran platform offers a unique and time-saving MICR...

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Credit Cards Mobile

Will Mobile Payments Overtake Credit? What Your Business Needs to Know.

A successful business actively sells what they believe is the best product or service currently available. A successful...

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Why Your Business Should Take Recurring Credit Card Payments

Originally published on 7/14/2014. Updated on 2/16/2022. If your business provides a service or product that is billed...

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How to Save Money & Speed Cash Flow with Web-Based Invoicing

Are you still printing and mailing invoices to your customers? How many times do you hear from some of them that they...

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Finally Done

Killing the Paper Check with Remote Deposit Capture (RDC)

Remote deposit (also known as ‘Remote Deposit Capture,’ or ‘RDC’) is a way to process payments without sending checks...

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EIPP/Invoice Blog

Why Your Business Should Use Electronic Invoicing (EIPP) Solutions

Originally published on 6/30/2014. Updated on 2/16/2022. Business invoicing can be a time-consuming, error-prone and...

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Credit Card Fees

Hidden Fees in Credit Card Processing Services

If you accept credit cards, you work with a processing service to ensure that the consumer or client’s account is...

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The Secret Power of Moving Money with ACH Payment Processing

Originally published on 6/25/2014. Updated on 2/16/2022. The Automated Clearing House (ACH) is a network that banks use...

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What You Need to Know about Electronic Invoice Presentment

Invoice presentment, also called e-invoicing or electronic billing, is essentially sending invoices to clients and...

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FTNI at IASA 2014 Post Show Wrap-Up

Thanks to Everyone at IASA 2014 for a Great Show FNTI is excited to report that the 2014 IASA Annual Educational...

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FTNI at 2014 IASA Annual Educational Conference and Business Show

The Insurance Industry’s Premier Event for Accounting & Technology Systems The 2014 IASA Annual Educational Conference...

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What’s Behind the Latest Data on Mobile?

In today’s connected world, there is no escaping technology. It is literally everywhere you turn and plays a role in...

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Mobile Payments Move from Trend to Reality

Earlier this year, and for the first time, mobile devices and apps overcame PC access for U.S. Internet usage –...

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FTNI Hopes to Help IRI Ops and Tech Attendees find Solutions

The Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) Operations and Technology conference is just around the corner. IRI Ops and Tech...

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Let’s Talk Payment Solutions with ALFA Attendees

The Assisted Living Federation of American (ALFA) Conference and Expo, 2014, is here! The conference and exposition is...

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Are Collections Causing You Consternation?

The collections process can be tricky for any company, but especially for distribution companies who deal with large...

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Streamlining Operations for Distribution Companies: How Smart Payment Technology Improves Business

Today’s distribution companies are faced with a bevy of external pressures that are impacting growth and threatening...

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The Benefits of Remote Item Review

One of the many benefits of cloud computing or SaaS deployment is the centralized storage of all transaction data that...

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ACH Processing 101: A Beginner's Guide

Originally published on 2/10/2014. Updated on 2/16/2022. What Is ACH? ACH (Automated Clearing House) is a nationwide...

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Transaction Processing 101

Building an enterprise-level organization involves complex processes that revolve around one of the most important...

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Adding Remote Deposit Capture to the Bank Reseller Offering

With more budget cuts across the board for all different types of financial organizations, there is a growing trend to...

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The Future of Payment Processing Platforms

In the very near future and probably within your lifetime, you may be asked the question… “What Payment Platform Will...

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How to Increase Donations with Enhanced Payments Technology

Every year nonprofits generate trillions of dollars in revenue, adding billions to the national economy. These numbers...

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Growing Your Donor Base Without Outgrowing Your Receivables

In recent years, nonprofit organizations have flourished where other for-profit businesses have struggled. Nonprofit...

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The Role of Technology in Meeting Insurance Customer Payment Needs

To stay ahead of competition, insurance agencies can leverage the latest payments technology to maximize their...

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How Insurance Agencies Can Improve Customer Experience and Grow Revenue

It’s no secret that 2013 has brought a wealth of challenge to the insurance industry. Agencies have faced turmoil...

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How to Grow Your Business with Online Payments

The efficiency of running a business in this digital age hinges on the ability to process online web payments. This is...

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What is next for RDC?

As I talked to a number of vendors and prospective clients at the 2012 RDC Summit it was clear to me how far the Remote...

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Independence Bank On-Boards 100th Merchant Customer with FTNI’s Platform

FTNI’s cloud-based Receivables Processing Platform allows easy setup, deployment & support OMAHA, Neb. – November 8,...

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Home State Bank chooses ETran by FTNI for Remote Deposit Capture

Omaha, Neb. March 8, 2011 – Home State Bank has served the financial needs of Larimer County, Colorado for over 60...

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