Beyond the credit card reader and point-of-sale app, Cube offers a back office suite of software that produces payment and labor reports that show how much of each item a business has sold and how much it has made off each transaction.
To save a few clicks, cardholders would be able to download software from the company's Web site that would automatically produce a payment number for purchases at selected e-tailers, a spokeswoman said.
So far the investigation he triggered has produced a $780 million payment to the U.S. government from UBS, Switzerland's largest bank; an unprecedented agreement by the Swiss to finger 4,450 U.S. taxpayers with secret UBS accounts; and criminal investigations of more than 150 American UBS clients.
"Sparkling Blue," he proudly says, continued to be played on oldies stations and produce residual payments into the 1980's.
Now that rates have moved off of their lows, large capital gains may no longer be likely, but fixed income's traditional appeal of producing regular payments–as well as acting as a hedge against more volatile equity investments–remains strong.
Information on the payments was produced by the Empire State Development Corporation, the state agency in charge of the grant payments, in response to a request made under New York State's Freedom of Information law and is the first public assessment of the grant program since its completion.
Loan servicing operations are intended to receive borrowers' payments; producing loan histories and verifying that payments were received or junk fees were not applied is considerably more labor intensive.
Tightening coverage and claims payments have produced spectacular results for the insurers, as shown in an economic snapshot of their performance in home insurance in 1992, the year of Andrew, and in 2005, the year of Katrina.
Both the Gillard government and the original version of the coalition's "Direct Action" policy produced from opposition envisaged payments-for-closure for brown-coal fired plants, but in both cases the idea was abandoned.
For example, the 1983 recession, which was related to the "El Niño" phenomenon and a balance of payments crisis, produced a large contraction in output that did not recover until 1985.
