Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-Person Payment Service

Re:Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-... by smelendez on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @08:56PM (#10550811)

I'm a freelancer and I've had happily clients pay me through PayPal, Venmo, Dwolla and other services.

But if I were a landlord, I'd sadly ask for a check too. A lot of U.S. jurisdictions require a landlord not to accept rent in certain circumstances from a tenant he's trying to evict.

It's well established how to do this with a check: don't cash it, and possibly send it back to the sender certified mail. I wouldn't want to risk paying my lawyer to establish a precedent for what that looks like through a new payment system.

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Re:Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-... by pbreit on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @11:17PM (#10551269)

Is that really true? I hear claims of that sort but never actualities (I worked for a rent payment company).

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Re:Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-... by escaped_hn on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @09:00PM (#10550829)

If only there was some way to not accept an electronic payment.

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Re:Apple in Talks with US Banks to Develop Mobile Person-To-... by lostlogin on Thursday November 12, 2015 @05:10AM (#10552241)

if this is the only time that having inbound money is a problem (is it?) then wouldn't amending the law be easier?

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