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Modern Treasury recently hosted a coffee chat with Nacha to discuss straight-through processing and reconciliation. This journal digs into some of the key takeaways from our discussion.

In this journal, we take a closer look at stored-value digital wallets, including how some major companies are already using them successfully and how they can help unlock cash flow, increase customer retention, and improve margins for companies with established customer bases.

This journal digs into what payment hubs are, how they function, what teams building them should know, and how scaling businesses can benefit.

Modern Treasury recently hosted a Tech Talk on building a central ledger. This journal shares key insights from in-house experts.

The differences between closed-loop payment systems and digital wallets are nuanced and can be challenging to understand. In this journal, we delve into these two products, how they work, and what they look like in practice.

In this journal, we dig through structured versus unstructured types of remittance information and file formats, and how important remittance data is for accurate and quick reconciliation.

In this journal, we’ll take a deeper dive into some of the variants of reconciliation, how they work, why they’re necessary, and how Modern Treasury can help your business better manage them.

Modern Treasury helps companies implement end-to-end real-time reconciliation. In this article we share learnings for product, engineering and finance teams looking to improve visibility on their financial data.

It's official—FedNow has launched. Here’s a roundup of key resources to help companies get up to speed.

Real estate is responsible for a considerable portion of US bank payments. In this article, you’ll learn how real estate companies of all sizes can use Modern Treasury to modernize payment operations.

In April and May, our product and engineering team shipped several new features including Enhanced Account Views, Pre-Built UIs, Invoicing, and more.

On June 1, Modern Treasury hosted Transfer at The Midway in San Francisco. Read up on key learnings from the event.

On Modern Treasury’s fifth birthday, our CEO shares five learnings from the journey so far.

Modern Treasury’s Reconciliation Engine provides customers with real-time, automated cash reconciliation across any payment method and processing partner—here's how it works.

Developers now have a set of example integrations to help build pre-built UIs into Node.js or Python web applications.

Learn how digital payment platforms like Sana Benefits are transforming payment operations.

Finance and operations teams can now use Modern Treasury to create invoices with built-in payment flows, allowing invoices to be easily sent, tracked, and reconciled.

In a conversation with Modern Treasury, Slope CFO Ashish Jain discusses why diversification, people, and partners matter when it comes to building organizational resilience.

Using Pre-Built UIs, companies can now create custom payment experiences to improve efficiency with minimal engineering and IT involvement.

Rahul Hampole, Head of Risk Products at Plaid, cautions leaders not to wait until fraud shows up at your door.

In this journal, Dr. Elizabeth McQuerry of Glenbrook Partners shares her perspective on innovations happening in cross-border payments and how Global ACH fits in.

In this journal, we discuss why we built our new Reconciliation Engine and how it can help drive efficiency, reduce financial risks, and provide real-time data for businesses.

In February and March, our product and engineering team shipped a wide variety of new features across our platform including support for Global ACH, updated account views, custom email domains, and more.

Payments expert Cici Northup explains the reasons why the Real-Time Payments network is here to stay.

Modern Treasury is excited to announce our support for real-time payments (RTP) with Increase.

Building upon our robust SOC 2 compliance program, we’ve implemented additional controls resulting in a SOC 1 Type II Report without exception.

In this journal, we recap the main takeaways from our recent webinar on Building Resilient Payment Operations and answer some key questions about the future of payments.

The fourth part of our Recon Diaries series digs into the factors that make reconciliation tricky, as well as how a modern solution can help.

Given recent events, many companies are thinking about improving the resilience of their payment systems via a multi-bank strategy. This journal digs into three primary considerations for shoring up fund flows right away.

A message from Modern Treasury CEO Dimitri Dadiomov regarding recent events involving Silicon Valley Bank.

Marketplaces need to properly scale payments in order to grow. In this article we explore how implementing best practices in payment operations can directly correlate to volume growth in marketplaces of all kinds.

Modern Treasury customer Capchase offers flexible, non-dilutive funding for global B2B subscription-based and SaaS companies. They partnered with Modern Treasury to scale their financing platform using ACH, Same-Day ACH, and wire transfers.

We built Modern Treasury to be the operating system for global money movement. Today, we announce a wealth of new features to help customers launch global products and streamline global processes that move money.

In this journal, find out how banking APIs are powering the future of fintech, and how companies can use them to embed financial services into their products and unlock new growth.

In this second article in our series about Global ACH we detail how finance and operations teams can use this new rail to drive efficiency in global payment operations.

Global ACH is the newest option for product managers and developers building products that move money internationally. In this article, you’ll learn why integrating with Global ACH is a superior choice for cross-border payment flows.

In this journal, we’ll take a detailed look at RTP and how developers can implement it for building products and processes that move money.

Customers can now receive webhook notifications when a Payment Reference is added to their payment order, which can help in tracking the status of a payment through its lifecycle.

In January, we shipped features including ledger account payouts, block and allow lists, and more.

We are expanding our Push to Data Warehouse capability to help provide full data visibility into payment operations. In this journal, we explain more about this expansion and detail how customers rely on us as a single source of truth.

Last week, along with Goldman Sachs TxB, we hosted Geoff Lewis, VP of Product at Procore, for an evening event in New York City. In this journal, we recap some themes of the night and look at how the Modern Treasury and Goldman Sachs partnership is enabling Procore to embed financial services.

In this journal, Craig Nile traces his journey to becoming Chief Revenue Officer at Modern Treasury and shares his vision for the future.

Positive Pay is a fraud detection tool for business accounts. This journal digs into how it works and how Modern Treasury can help automate Positive Pay reporting to help mitigate check fraud.

In today’s market—and well into the future—embedded finance can unlock huge business potential. Learn why and how in this journal.

In this journal, we'll discuss two of the fastest options for making cross-border payments from US-domiciled bank accounts and take a detailed look at how they work.

In the third part of our Recon Diaries series, we take a close look at check reconciliation and discuss why it matters.

In this journal, we take a detailed look at what to expect as FedNow prepares for its launch later this year.

In the final part of our series, we explore advanced ledger functions that all global, scalable ledgers need.

In November and December, we shipped features including scheduled reports, security notifications, international counterparty invites, and more.

In the fifth part of our series, we examine ledger guarantees, like immutability and double-entry, and how the API can provide them.

A look back on the team's favorite posts and podcasts of 2022.

In this journal, we cover RFP, its differences from RTP, and the potential it has to influence faster payments adoption in the US.

In the fourth part of this series, we'll look at how a ledger fits into a modern money movement system.

Widespread faster payment adoption hinges on a few key developments. This journal digs into three important drivers for the usage of rails like RTP and FedNow, as well as potential barriers to success.

In the third part of this series, we'll look at how Transaction models enable atomic money movement and enforce double-entry.

Compliance is a tricky, but vital part of launching a fintech product. This journal covers key takeaways from our webinar on building a culture of compliance.

We’re excited to announce that our Compliance product now supports Decision Feedback and Insights to further streamline how compliance teams manage and monitor their daily operations.

The payments landscape continues to shift towards speedier, more convenient options. In this journal, we explore how faster payments work in the US.

In this second part of the series, we'll look at what it means for a ledger to be immutable and double-entry at the source of financial events.

RTP and FedNow have a lot in common, but they are not the same payment rail. In this journal, we discuss how the two systems can achieve interoperability.

In this guide, we walk through how to verify prior ledger states by finding the historical changes to a ledger.

If only the preparation for instant payments were as delightful as the end-user experience. Alas, readiness for faster payments requires more than a click or two. This journal shares four facets of good planning for real-time payment rails like RTP and FedNow.

Modern Treasury supports extended functionality for virtual accounts. For each virtual account, you can now track balances, retrieve a list of transactions, and originate payments directly.

In this article, we discuss the benefits and drawbacks of using an external ledger service.

Managing fund flows and ledgers for card programs can be tricky. Here are four takeaways from a recent webinar with Lithic focused on the fundamentals.

Recently, we sat down with CEO and Founder of Boosted Technologies, Tom Taubkin, to discuss the challenges and best practices for building and scaling a ledger database. This is what he had to say.

In this follow-up to our accounting for developers series, we explore the ins and outs of building a ledger to power a lending marketplace product.

In this journal, we look at best practices for managing payment operations, namely, building a payments ecosystem to enable transactions and building out the back office to manage the complexities of high volume payments.

Payment operations are central to an efficient, modern fintech stack. Read more about the business challenges and opportunities money movement technology presents.

This summer, Laura Levy, our new Head of Growth, joined the team. In this Behind the Scenes journal, she shares the career journey that led her to Modern Treasury.

Our second annual payment operations report is overflowing with notable data about the state of money movement. Read on for key takeaways and a peek at the numbers for 2022.

When starting a card program for your business, there are a lot of factors to consider. This journal digs into how Modern Treasury streamlines the process.

What is the cost of payment operations and why do the right investments matter? Read on to learn more.

Today, we're launching Intra-Bank Payments, allowing customers to process payments without using interbank payment networks when they bank at the same financial institution.

Every business has some sort of payment operations workflow in place. As more businesses embed payments into their products, the need for better, automated payment operations is growing beyond fintech.

Our Co-founder and CTO, Sam Aarons, was on a FedNow steering committee. In our conversation, he shares why its launch next year is so significant and why he’s excited about it.

Payment operations are the workflows surrounding money movement. This journal digs into the nuances and evolving significance of effective payments technology.

The history of ledgers is more intriguing than you might think. This journal traces notable moments in the evolution of immutable, double-entry, and scalable ledgering.

In August, we shipped several new updates including a new payment order create experience, a payment order timeline, ledger account categories, and more.

In this second part of our two-part series, we build a ledger for a Venmo clone by applying the accounting principles we learned in Part I.

Any company that wants to work directly with a bank must successfully complete the bank due diligence process. This Journal provides an actionable checklist for companies preparing for this process with a bank partner.

Understanding the differences between ACH and card payments is a strategic necessity for businesses looking to scale. This journal digs into key distinctions and selection criteria for making the best choice.

We recently shipped three new features that let you build a better Ledger faster: Available Balances, Balance Aggregation, and Ledger Accounting Categories. This journal details the benefits of each.

Earlier this month, we migrated from offset pagination to cursor-based pagination for our API. In this journal, we walk through the basics of these methods of pagination and why we’re making this switch.

As fintech continues to create value through expanded access to financial services, banks have the opportunity to partner to provide better product support and customer experiences.

We now support customers of Cross River to send and reconcile ACH transactions, with support for additional payment rails.

We're excited to expand our partnership with BankProv to include support for their payments and banking APIs.

On Thursday, along with Rutter, we hosted a discussion to learn about alternatives financing. Here are three key learnings from our panel.

To prevent a double-spend situation, your ledger needs to be able to record transactions that are conditional on the state of an account balance or account. The Ledgers API now supports account balance locking to make it even easier to handle concurrency in your ledger.

In June and July, we shipped features such as historical balance reports, a banking holiday banner on the web app, and more.

We’re excited to announce that Compliance is now available in Sandbox mode.

With the internet providing increasingly new ways to distribute and interact with financial products, the banking industry is losing ground to new fintech entrants. Modern Treasury can provide the software to help banks compete. In this journal, we take a look at the opportunity that exists for us to work better together.

Software-integrated payments are fast-becoming the new normal. In this journal, we look at how software infiltrated the payments space, how it enables better experiences, and why this matters.

When Modern Treasury onboards a new bank partner, we are building a relationship—with both the people and the software—to the financial institution used by our customers. This journal looks at the consideration and work that goes into establishing a bank partnership.

When building a marketplace solution, there are many considerations for how to structure payments to streamline operations. This journal looks at four questions to keep in mind when designing marketplace payment flows.

Bank partnerships are a core part of our offering. This journal looks at the mutual benefits of the partnership between banks and Modern Treasury.

Earlier this month, we sponsored and attended Nacha's Smarter Faster Payments conference in Nashville. This journal takes a retrospective look at our time at the event and highlights our key takeaways.

When a business sits “in” the flow of funds, it means that money will, at some point, pass through the business’ bank account. This primer digs into funds flow models and the risks and benefits associated with sitting in the flow of funds.

Modern marketplaces need to consider how to design payment flows to move money between buyers and sellers. In this journal, we outline why it can be beneficial for the marketplace to be directly in the flow of funds.

Earlier this month, we co-hosted a panel with Nacha about how to mitigate fraud on the ACH network. This journal details some of the key findings from that conversation.

In April and May, in addition to our new Compliance product, we shipped several new updates including ledger dashboard improvements, exporting payment approval queues and bulk imports, and more.

Modern Treasury uses a field called "Effective Date" to represent the date of a payment. This journal takes a look at payment timelines and why the Effective Date does not mean date of transmission.

Nacha has over 80 codes for ACH returns. In this primer, we look at the ACH return that happens if you debit a blocked account and other common ACH return codes.

Today we're launching early access to our Push to Data Warehouse feature: connect your data warehouse, and receive up-to-date Modern Treasury data every 15 minutes.

Last month, Nacha released their top 50 ACH Originators, which included some surprisingly small financial institutions. In this By The Numbers journal, we dig into how tech forward banks are pursuing new strategies for revenue growth, enabling them to compete with bigger banks.

We now support customers of Bank of Montreal moving money via US and Canadian payment methods.

We recently announced our Compliance product to make it easier for companies to build and manage compliance and fraud programs. In this BTS Journal, we share why we built it.

Today we’re pleased to announce the early access release of Modern Treasury Compliance, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance and fraud detection product.

In this Behind the Scenes, Julie Mullins, our new head of marketing, discusses her experience in category creation and shares what brought her to Modern Treasury.

Frank Chimero, our new Head of Brand, shares his thoughts about the changing nature of money and how that brought him to Modern Treasury.

Core banking systems revolutionized the way we manage money. In this Payments Primer, we dig into how they work and how they compare to modern day payment solutions.

Cryptocurrency is rising in popularity and becoming more mainstream. In this post, we dig into the differences between cryptocurrency and fiat money.

A look at how you can use an application ledger to keep track of balances and transactions on your platform and build programmatic, instant payouts.

This March, we shipped several new updates including added support for customers at Wintrust Bank, custom table columns, bulk import views, and more.

President & CEO of Ancestry, Deb Liu revolutionized e-commerce. In our Coffee Break discussion, Deb offers a framework for strengthening your payment operations.

Despite all the digital payment options, many businesses still rely heavily on paper checks. In this post, we walk you through what check processing is and how it works.

Today, we’re excited to announce the $50M second close of our Series C and welcome Salesforce Ventures and SVB Capital to the growing Modern Treasury family.

We have tools to make managing your financial transactions simple and straightforward. One of those tools is our notification of the details of an incoming payment. 

Recently, we hosted a Coffee Break with Indeed’s VP of Client Success for the Americas region. Here's 5 lessons in leadership she shared with us during our conversation.

In April, Visa and Mastercard will raise interchange fees – the fees set by the networks to determine how much merchants must pay to accept consumer cards.

Security is a priority for our customers and key feature of our products. Here are recent examples of our continuing approach to delivering on hardened network security.

We have now added support for Virtual Accounts for Wires at BankProv. We have also added support for ProvXchange at BankProv.

This February, we worked on several projects to create more features and enhance our product offerings. Here is what shipped in the last month.

Most consumers are familiar with chargebacks as they happen with credit cards. This post will help you understand chargebacks across different payment rails.

SWIFT is making headlines due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. This post explains what SWIFT is and what changes are currently taking place.

Modern Treasury’s selection to join NACHA’s Preferred Partner Program endorses our endeavors to support the ACH network and continue as the leader of payment operations.

In this post, we explore how interbank settlements work, why they are used, and what happens to transactions at cutoff or if there is a system outage.

In this By the Numbers Journal, we provide a definition of cutoff times, explain why they’re crucial, and explore how they might affect business money movement.

It can be challenging to differentiate between money that’s in flight and settled. Ledger transactions have a status field that can help with this.

Preet Narisetty joined the team as Head of Customer Success, and in this Behind the Scenes journal he shares his story and reasons for joining Modern Treasury.

Last month, Shruthi Murthy joined the team as Head of Engineering, and in this Behind the Scenes journal she describes what drew her to Modern Treasury.

Last month, Derek Schwede joined the team as Head of Legal, and in this Behind the Scenes journal he dives into what led him to Modern Treasury.

This month we shipped new updates including failed payment order notifications, duplicate payment order detection, and a dedicated dashboard for external accounts.

On September 30th, NACHA is instituting a new rule that will address third-party senders that are direct customers of other TPSs and provides requirements for when a TPS must conduct a risk assessment.

Managing payment flows within an insurance company can be difficult. In this article, we share how insurance companies can use Modern Treasury to help with three common payment operations challenges.

It can be hard to understand the difference between general ledger software and a financial ledger database. This post explains each system and when your company might need one or the other.

This month we shipped new updates including support for creating internal bank accounts in the sandbox, the ability to view incoming payment details and link reversals to ledger transactions.

We have now added support for HSBC customers in the United Kingdom.

Modern Treasury’s favorite posts and podcasts of 2021.

Immutability is one of three core principles to adhere to good engineering and accounting principles.

For those considering using Ledgers to build a reliable transaction database, this journal discusses the 3 most common questions existing customers have asked.

This month we shipped new updates including improved bulk imports, support to filter by return type, and naming approval rules.

This September, we opened our San Francisco office, a milestone moment on the journey to building a company.

With SVB and Settle, we participated in a panel about Scaling Payment Operations. This journal digs into some key points from the discussion from what payment operations are to how to evaluate a payments solution.

This year, we conducted the first State of Payment Operations survey. This By The Numbers journal talks through some of the key survey points and the case for modernizing payment ops.

Last month, Modern Treasury unveiled our first brand video. This Behind the Scenes journal digs into how we made it, from pre-production to post.

Modern Treasury has added wallet support to our Internal and External accounts to allow customers to view transactions, balances, and originate payments on the wallet’s network.

This month we shipped new updates including bulk imports for expected payments, a currency filter for payment orders, and linking ledger transactions to expected payments.

On Tuesday, we announced Virtual Accounts, our new product that helps automate payment attribution. Here's the story behind how we built it.

Today we're excited to announce the launch of Virtual Accounts, which helps businesses automate how payments are attributed and reconciled.

We’re excited to share that Modern Treasury is joining the Plaid Payment Partner Ecosystem.

Businesses that move money eventually need a solution for how to handle payouts for their products and services. In this guide, we’ll describe the key factors to consider when choosing a payments solution for automatic payouts at scale.

This month we shipped new updates including support for check processing in the sandbox, linking ledger transactions and incoming payment details, and a beta version of reporting.

This month we shipped new updates including support for testing failed payments in the sandbox, search capability for "other" payment types, and virtual accounts for Wells Fargo.

Modern Treasury has now added support for customers of BankProv.

A virtual account doesn’t hold any funds, despite having a unique account number and can perform payments as physical accounts. They can be a popular solution for neobanks to scale payment operations and manage large transaction amounts.

Optimistic Locking is a control method that assumes multiple transactions can complete concurrently without conflict. We built our ledgers API with concurrency control semantics to better manage transaction volume.

Despite the availability of electronic payments, paper checks remain a popular payment method. This primer details why lockboxes remain a beneficial way of managing paper checks for businesses.

This month we shipped several new updates including permissioning updates for better risk control, RTP automatic payment retries, and sandbox testing for processing originated returns.

A few months ago we conducted a reverse interview with one of our favorite business podcasts: Acquired. Today, we’re excited to share it.

The bank onboarding process can be long and confusing. In this guide, we hope to demystify the process and help you go live with your bank faster.

Modern Treasury has now added support for customers of Pathward.

In June, we shipped several new updates on our dashboard, such as notifications for approval rule changes, configuration options for NetSuite integration, in-dashboard support for international accounts, and more.

Today we're excited to announce the launch of Ledgers, an immutable double-entry product ledger that makes it easy for businesses to record financial transactions.

Modern Treasury has now added support for customers of Santander Bank.

Even though wire transfers are the most expensive payment type, they remain one of the most utilized payment methods. This primer explains what wire transfers are, wire payment timings, and what makes this method so costly.

In May, we shipped several new updates on our dashboard, such as our new organization switcher for businesses who manage more than one organization, a new billing page to track all aspects of your account, and support for virtual accounts at Increase.

The rise of newer and faster payment methods like RTP and FedNow will enable businesses to move and settle money more quickly, driving adoption. This journal explores whether the U.S. will see increased payment volumes as adoption grows across large and small financial institutions.

We are excited to announce our first formal bank partnership with Silicon Valley Bank.

We released a new feature that allows Modern Treasury customers to pause webhook endpoints while performing maintenance.

Modern Treasury has now added support for customers of Bank of America.

Today, we are excited to announce that Modern Treasury reconciled over $1B in payments for our customers last month, a compound monthly growth rate of 37%.

We have added Global Payouts, enabling our customers to make multi-currency international payments through our API and web app.

We've released a new feature that allows customers to verify routing numbers using a new API endpoint.

On March 19, Nacha made effective a new rule which strengthens the requirements for originators of WEB debits. In an attempt to curtail fraud, the rule requires companies to validate new accounts. Though it won't be enforced for a year, it's important to know about the rule change so your company can remain compliant.

Modern Treasury now supports sending ACH prenotes as a way to validate account and routing information.

When maintaining your books, there are a number of accounting methods you can use to keep track of your company’s financial information. One of them is double-entry accounting. What is it, and when should it be used?

The Federal Reserve (“The Fed”) promotes the stability of the financial system, including playing an important role in maintaining the integrity of the US payments system. What happens when the FedACH, FedWire, and National Settlement Service are offline?

Modern Treasury has now added support for customers of Sutton Bank.

Today we’re happy to share that we’ve released a new ACH Reversals feature in our Payments product. ACH Reversals lets you reverse an ACH payment you initiated with the click of a button or an API call.

A story about a $900 million mistake, bad software, and good people. This case goes to the heart of why we started Modern Treasury.

These past five months, I’ve had the opportunity to intern at Modern Treasury and wanted to reflect on my experience here. 

We released a new feature that allows Modern Treasury customers to add custom processing windows in addition to our default processing windows for all supported payment types. 

Escrow is a payment setup where the payer sends funds to a third party rather than directly to the payee. If certain conditions are met, the third party routes the funds to the recipient; if not, the funds get returned to the sender. Escrow is particularly useful for high value payments because the payer can rely on the escrow provider as a responsible intermediary of the funds.

There are many important moments along the journey of never-ending work it takes to build an enduring and valuable company. Today we’re excited to share that we’ve reached another stepping stone on that path: we raised a $38M Series B financing led by Altimeter Capital.

2020 was a year like no other. To fill all that time at home, we consumed a lot of content. So what caught our eye in 2020? Here are our favorite posts from the year.

Last week, we announced support for self-serve sign up. When signing up, customers can now pick between three options for bank connection: Instant Bank Partners, Supported Bank Partners and Custom Bank Partners. 

Yesterday, we announced self-serve sign up, an easy and secure way to start moving money within minutes. Here's how we built it.

At Modern Treasury we help companies manage payments at scale and build payment flows into their products. Done right, we believe this can turn payments and treasury into a strategic advantage and unlock incredible new products and customer experiences. 

If you need to track the complete lifecycle of a payment from the time it is approved and sent to the bank, through completion, you need to reconcile it to a cash transaction. A bank statement is precisely what’s needed: a chronological list of credit and debit transactions with corresponding bank balances at any point in time. 

In October, we shipped support for Signature Bank and added capabilities for collecting SSNs and EINs. We made a number of additional improvements to our platform that we are excited to share.

Modern Treasury has now added support for customers of Signature Bank.

In order to pay many types of counterparties, businesses need to collect and track Social Security Numbers (SSN) or Employer Identification Numbers (EIN). This is required in cases where you need to file a tax document, such as a 1099, and can also support compliance and control processes inside your company.

We’re excited to share some of the features that shipped this month at Modern Treasury. In addition to the Events product we shared earlier this month, we have improvements across our platform that benefit the entire payment process.

This is where two goals can sometimes come in conflict: responding to customer requests as fast as possible, and managing the financial controls around payments. So we’ve built tools for a customer support team to get access to the information they need while creating flexible controls to ensure a business is safe and protected.

There’s a myth going around now that fintech is a new industry, poised to take over, and that now that it’s here, every company will be a fintech company. In reality, though, fintech is just as old as "tech." For as long as engineers and entrepreneurs have been coming up with new technology amongst the hills of Cupertino and the orange groves of Mountain View, there have been fintech entrepreneurs right amongst them. And in many instances, the two groups have utilized the same technology advances to push the world forward. 

‍‍When evaluating options for payment processing, one option to consider is working directly with your bank. The term for this setup is called “direct transmission.”

Events are how we model important state changes within the Modern Treasury system. When a state change event occurs, we create an Event object.

Today, we are excited to announce that Modern Treasury reconciled over $100 million in payments for our customers last month. This milestone comes after compound monthly growth of 25% since January.

August has been another busy month for Modern Treasury. In addition to some of the bigger items we shipped like Permissioned API Keys, we’ve shipped a number of smaller features and improvements we’re excited to share.

This post is a guide to the operational, money movement aspects of private investing. While the specifics of the investments and the horizon for repayment might vary widely, we hope that this guide is useful in simplifying and demystifying how a fund might automate some of its internal operations. 

Modern Treasury now supports API access by user-managed keys.

Bank statements can be difficult to understand. We’ve previously written about bank statement descriptions and how they work. In this post, we will focus on a specific abbreviation, INDN, that you may see on your bank statement.

In November, we released functionality that allows Modern Treasury to connect with general ledger systems in real-time and introduced it as a class of features called Continuous Accounting.

You can now unmask and view account numbers on external accounts in Modern Treasury. Previously, it was impossible to view the account number for a counterparty’s external account. Our platform will automatically record an action on the audit trail every time an account number is viewed.

Credit card users today can transact online with peace of mind because card-accepting merchants are subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Security is also a concern for bank payments.

Among the many improvements that Real-Time Payments brings to the money transfer ecosystem, one of the most overlooked is its adherence to the global standard ISO 20022.

Many more of us are working from home right now, which means in-person processes are being taken online. For finance and accounting teams, one common in-person workflow is managing paper checks. There are two sides to check transactions: sending and receiving. Both can be automated. Let’s take them one by one.

Modern Treasury integrates with NetSuite to support our Continuous Accounting product. 

Modern Treasury now supports syncing to both NetSuite and QuickBooks.

We now support PacWest Bank and our Continuous Accounting platform integrates with NetSuite. Here are a few additional changes that we released.

We are excited to announce our integration with NetSuite. Modern Treasury customers can now sync their data to NetSuite, making it even easier to automatically reconcile transactions for accounting.

Modern Treasury has added support for customers of Pacific Western Bank API.

In payments, there are two common setups: third-party sender and third-party service provider. For any company that needs to move money, it’s good to understand the differences.

Invoice factoring advances cash against invoices a company has issued, effectively prepaying the funds that a company’s customers have promised to pay in 30, 60, or 90 days.

Due to the asynchronous nature of payment operations, Modern Treasury has a robust webhooks API that sends out webhooks when objects such as payment orders change state. Many of our customers build against our webhooks API, and rely on webhooks to trigger state changes and start automated processes on their end. 

We are excited to launch a new dashboard today.

So here it is: the top ten. It’s a subset of our full list of readings that’s focused on payments specifically. 

Modern Treasury has added support for receiving Corporate Trade Exchange (CTX) records on incoming ACH payments.

LedgerSync is an open source Ruby library that allows developers to easily connect to and sync information to and from any ledger or accounting software such as QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, and more.

March was a busy month for us at Modern Treasury. We shared some changes we made to support customers in Canada through RBC, display API logs in the application, and enable users to reconcile expected payments manually in the dashboard. Here are a few additional changes that were released.

ACH money movement is a common payment method for money transfers or automated payments. It’s relatively easy and cheap, but timing can be confusing. Since we get so many questions around ACH timings, we wanted to clear up timing for companies utilizing ACH and what they can expect.

Modern Treasury has now added support for RBC Commercial Banking customers.

To improve the developer experience with Modern Treasury, we have introduced easily navigable API logs in the app.

We’ve released a new feature that allows Modern Treasury users to manually reconcile expected payments to transactions on their bank statement.

Modern Treasury is updating how users interact with the application’s permission system. After studying how users across organizations were grouping permissions together, we are introducing a simplified permission interface.

To better support customers who send physical checks, Modern Treasury has now added Lob as a supported check print provider.

Today we’re launching Audit Logs. We’ve always had an audit trail for Payment Orders. Now, all user and API actions will be logged and available throughout our app. 

We have previously shared news of our partnership with Plaid, and our first Plaid integration which enables our mutual customers to instantly verify their counterparties through Plaid.

When we started Modern Treasury, we set out to build an enduring and valuable company. Today, we are excited to share that we’ve reached a significant milestone on that journey. 

Modern Treasury now supports reconciling payment orders, expected payments, paper items, and returns (called “transactables” in this article) to pending transactions on a tentative basis.

Yesterday we announced our partnership with Plaid, which enables our mutual customers to use Plaid to authenticate and collect bank account details without touching sensitive data like bank account numbers. 

Since the day I arrived at Modern Treasury, customers and prospects have asked us about Plaid and how to use our products together. Today we are excited to share our partnership, which offers businesses an improved, secure, and streamlined way to manage payment operations.

Modern Treasury has added support for customers of Bank of the West through the bank’s Integrated Solutions offering.

In this Journal Entry, we’re going to give a behind-the-scenes look into how we built this integration using LedgerSync, which is an open-source library for accounting systems.

This post explains how to use Modern Treasury’s Continuous Accounting product with QuickBooks. We will cover some QuickBooks basics, product decisions we made while building our integration, and how to setup QuickBooks with Modern Treasury.

We are excited to introduce Continuous Accounting to the Modern Treasury platform.

Regardless of specifics, however, the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) structure is relatively consistent. To define it more explicitly, an Income Sharing Agreement funds a student’s tuition upfront in exchange for receiving a percentage of the student’s future earnings (hence “income-sharing”) based on a pre-defined formula. In this way, the funder can be thought of less as a debt investor and more as an equity investor, receiving “dividends” from the students future earnings.

We've released two new features to improve the experience of using the Modern Treasury API. To view these changes, visit your developer settings page. 

In late 2017, banks started rolling out Real-Time Payments (RTP). You can learn more about the history and promise of RTP in our previous post about it. Rather than rehash that background or answer common questions, this post will offer a step by step guide to building an app using RTP and the customer delight moment that comes with.

It’s no surprise that everyone from major financial institutions to consumers would have questions about a brand new payment method: Real-Time Payments.

We’re excited to announce that Modern Treasury now supports sending payments through the Real Time Payments (RTP) network. RTP instantaneously delivers fund to your customers and vendors at any time: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. For more background on RTP, here’s a useful primer.

Modern Treasury now supports JP Morgan Chase commercial banking customers.

We’re excited to announce our status page where you can view Modern Treasury’s current condition and past incident details.

Lockboxes are a great solution for businesses who don't want to deal with the hassle of paper checks. 

We've released two new features to help you manage your counterparty relationships in Modern Treasury.

When an ACH return occurs, the payment is reversed. This means that if you had paid someone, the money will come back to your account. Or if you had charged someone, you will lose the money you thought you received. But how does that reversal happen? 

We now support microdeposit verification for bank accounts.

Modern Treasury has now added support for foreign exchange wires through Wells Fargo and Silicon Valley Bank.

This post lays out how money moves between companies, how that differs from consumer payments, and some surprising upcoming changes.

In the United States, moving money is big business. The ACH Network moves $51 trillion dollars in 23 billion electronic financial transactions per year. That’s almost 70 payments per person.

Ultimately, though, the mechanics are similar irrespective of what is being insured: an insurer first calculates the potential damage and the odds that damage might occur. Then, it charges a payment on a regular basis that, in aggregate across all those insured, is designed to make a profit for the insurance company itself. And finally, when and if the risky event comes to pass, the insurance company approves a payment to the customer that incurred the damage. That payout is called an insurance claim. 

We released an update to help our customers process their webhooks more safely.

There are many setups that can complicate the system, including collecting and returning security refunds, splitting rent between roommates, handling one-off fees or refunds, and other unique cases. And there’s a lot to think through if you want to start a company that deals with property management.

Increasingly, products are adding various forms of cash transfer beyond a simple credit card payment. In this post, we will walk through the building of a peer-to-peer money transfer app using the Modern Treasury API.

You may have heard of Real Time Payments (RTP) and wondered what that is. We thought it would be helpful to create a post that could serve as an overview of RTP, a new payment method that is coming to the US in the next couple of years.

When we talk to companies, we’re often surprised by the misconceptions that exist around ACH.

An eCheck is a payment method that businesses use to charge an individual or another business. It utilizes the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system to move the money between bank accounts. eChecks support a diverse set of use cases, from rent and utilities to medical payments and business invoices.

Today we're pushing an updated design for the Modern Treasury application. Our goal with this update is to make our user experience cleaner, more consistent, and more readable.

Modern Treasury has now added support for Wells Fargo commercial customers.

In March, NACHA released their listing of top ACH financial institutions. We always want to know as much as possible about how money moves in the United States, so we took a deep dive into the data they published.

Today we're releasing a new way to make it easier for Modern Treasury clients to onboard their counterparties.

ACH, or Automated Clearing House, is an electronic network used to communicate financial transactions.

We're happy to announce the release of Expected Payments.

Modern Treasury has added support for retrieving and creating Documents on associated records.

We've added support for bank lockboxes through our Paper Items API.

Modern Treasury has now added support for First Republic Bank corporate customers.

Modern Treasury has now added support for Silicon Valley Bank customers.

We’re excited to introduce Modern Treasury to the world, a startup a part of YC’s Summer 2018 batch that is simplifying and modernizing payments for businesses.