Coronavirus takes this boomer where his iPhone has never gone before
A first mobile deposit begins a shift for many a member across the country as digital replaces physical in a pandemic’s wake.
The coronavirus — not to make light of perhaps the most widespread, devastating disease to sweep the planet since the Spanish Flu of 1918 — has finally gotten me to go where this boomer has never gone before: I’ve made my first remote check deposit.
That seems ironic, considering I’ve been writing about financial services technology since long before remote deposit checking (RDC) was introduced, much less widespread.
But like I said, I’m a boomer. Born in 1956, that puts me right in the not-so-sweet spot where health experts advise staying at home and keeping your distance.
I’m not a tech-averse dinosaur, really, I’m just a creature of habit and have been depositing checks in person at the teller line or in the drive-through since getting my first paycheck now nearly 50 years ago.
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