Norman Baker, the Lib Dem MP for Lewes who lobbied for more transparency on expenses, has been caught out for repeatedly late utility bill payments.
If you want interest on credit balances or reward for their custom, there's Halifax Reward or TSB Classic Plus for balances of £2,000 or less or Santander's 123 account, which also pays cashback on utility bill payments.
More recently, he started handling phone and utility bill payments for elderly residents and recent immigrants who did not have checking accounts, charging a small fee for each transaction.
The national postal system, known by its Gaelic name, An Post, has been trying to keep these rural post offices viable by adding services, like accepting utility bill payments and dispensing welfare benefits -- though the welfare function has been challenged by the European Union as anticompetitive.
With the utility bill payments, PayNearMe partners with Fairfield billing service provider InfoSend to us PayNearMe's Embedded Barcode Remittance (EBR) technology.
Sharma started Paytm as a mobile wallet but soon turned it into a large platform used for grocery shopping, flight booking and utility bill payments.
It has since expanded into utility bill payments and mobile top-up, as well as areas like movie tickets, airline flights and payment for goods and services at 100,000 payment points nationwide, including popular chains.
Other online payment and e-commerce services available on WeChat include utility bill payments, taxi-booking and a new pilot program that lets users find local services, make medical appointments and even file a police report.
Other Asia-based messaging apps, including China's WeChat and South Korea's Kakao Talk, are also deploying similar strategies by integrating services like utility bill payments and taxi-calling.
Wells Fargo evaluates credit using nontraditional sources, such as tuition, rent or utility bill payments.
