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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON - For the first time, Americans' use of credit cards, debit cards and other electronic bill paying has eclipsed paper checks. The number of electronic payment transactions last year totaled ...

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 ...

Consumer groups are opposing the Federal Reserve's proposal to allow banks to process checks electronically and substitute a new type of check for traditional paper checks, saying it would expose ...

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 ...

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 ...