Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who ...

Growth rates in electronic check transactions at the point of sale are slowing down. While many opportunities remain, the rapidly changing market's future is anything but certain. For a brief shining ...

The Fed continues to operate paper-based system while it invests in electronic check processing. The process of converting checks to digital images to expedite processing and reduce shipping costs ...

Checks. There's no taking them away from consumers -- so how about giving them back? That's what happened to Toni Quinn of Seattle recently when she whipped out a check to pay for some merchandise at ...

When John Moffatt got his American Express bill last month, he noticed an odd little message just under the amount due. The company had started processing consumer checks electronically, "and banks ...

TeleCheck, a First Data company, offers check processing and risk reduction services to sellers of products and services. TeleCheck markets its electronic and paper check acceptance services to ...

Wal-Mart Stores announced Tuesday it is accepting electronic checks for online purchases, becoming the latest retailer to widen Web payment options in an effort to boost sales. The retail giant said ...

Electronic Clearing House Inc., an electronic transaction processor based in Camarillo, Calif., today announced a 22% increase in revenue in its October to December 2003 quarter over the same quarter ...

A payment method that lets merchants convert checks at the cash register into electronic transactions shows signs of picking up momentum across a spectrum of retailers. It's quite a turnaround for the ...

LEXINGTON, N.C. — ‘The check is in the mail.’ It's a well-known saying, but these days, chances are, it's an electronic check being sent through the system. As a service, banks cut thousands of ...

E. Napoletano is a former registered financial advisor and award-winning author and journalist. Managing Editor, Global Data and Automation for Forbes Advisor. Mitch has more than a decade of ...

While credit and debit cards are becoming the dominant form of payment, checks were still widely used as of 2010. From 2003 to 2006, for example, the total value of checks processed rose from $41.1 ...