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NACHA’s Payments Innovation Alliance Releases Faster Payments Primer for Financial Institutions

Posted March 20, 2019

The Faster Payments 101 tool is designed to help small- to mid-sized financial institutions understand the faster payments options in the marketplace.

ACH Network Marks a Daily Volume Record of 100 Million Payments

Posted March 12, 2019

The ACH Network set a record in February as volume exceeded 100 million ACH payments per banking day.

Same Day ACH Helps Payroll at Companies Big, Small

Posted March 5, 2019

In the March 2019 issue of the American Payroll Association's PAYTECH magazine, NACHA authored an article about how Same Day ACH is helping businesses of all sizes.

ACH Network Moves 23 Billion Payments and $51 Trillion in 2018

Posted February 19, 2019

2018 was a milestone year for the ACH Network. Payment volume climbed by almost 1.5 billion payments, the fourth straight year the ACH Network has added more than 1 billion new payments.

Upcoming Events

[Webinar] How to Provide Financial Services for Cannabis Payments (Legally)

Mar 26 - Mar 26

Panelists will talk about the real ins and outs of how to provide financial services to the cannabis industry and what to think about as you determine whether to capitalize on this growing line of business.

[Webinar] Faster Payments: Fundamentals of B2B Payment Acceptance and Settlement

Mar 27 - Mar 27

Free webinar! Join speakers as they compare and contrast faster payment methods on dimensions including remittance, ubiquity and settlement/processing times, and more.

PAYMENTS 2019

May 05 May 08

Orlando, FL

Join us at the Smarter. Faster. Payments conference which will be held at the Orlando World Center Marriott, May 5-8, 2019 in Orlando, FL.

Payments Innovation Alliance Meeting - June 2019

Jun 06 Jun 07

Madrid, Spain

The Payments Innovation Alliance will meet 6-7 June 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Register today!

More than 10,000 financial institutions support NACHA. Together, we make billions of transactions safe and secure every year and pursue new ways to connect people and payments.

Rules Changes

Expanding Same Day ACH

Upcoming

- Effective 03/19/2021

This new rule expands access to Same Day ACH by allowing Same Day ACH transactions to be submitted to the ACH Network for an additional two hours every business day. The new Same Day ACH processing window will go into effect on March 19, 2021

Supplementing Data Security Requirements

Upcoming

- Effective 06/30/2020

This change to the NACHA Operating Rules will enhance quality and improve risk management within the ACH Network by supplementing the existing account information security requirements for large-volume Originators and Third-Parties. This change will be implemented in two phases.

Increasing the Same Day ACH Dollar Limit

Upcoming

- Effective 03/20/2020

This new rule increases the Same Day ACH per-transaction dollar limit to $100,000 and will become effective on March 20, 2020.

Same Day ACH: Moving Payments Faster (Phase 3)

Recently implemented

- Effective 03/16/2018

New capabilities of Same Day ACH become effective over phases to allow financial institutions and businesses to acclimate to a faster processing environment, as well as to ease the implementation effort.

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More than 10,000 financial institutions support NACHA. Together, we make billions of transactions safe and secure every year and pursue new ways to connect people and payments.

ACH Compliance Manual

Recently Updated Edition Now Available

Smarter. Faster. PAYMENTS 2019

Where agility meets ingenuity

Building on a Solid Foundation in 2019

Afinis Interoperability Standards Continues to Advance Standardization

2019 NACHA Operating Rules & Guidelines

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Latest News

NACHA’s Payments Innovation Alliance Releases Faster Payments Primer for Financial Institutions

ACH Network Marks a Daily Volume Record of 100 Million Payments

Same Day ACH Helps Payroll at Companies Big, Small

ACH Network Moves 23 Billion Payments and $51 Trillion in 2018

Upcoming Events

[Webinar] How to Provide Financial Services for Cannabis Payments (Legally)

[Webinar] Faster Payments: Fundamentals of B2B Payment Acceptance and Settlement

PAYMENTS 2019

Payments Innovation Alliance Meeting - June 2019

More than 10,000 financial institutions support NACHA. Together, we make billions of transactions safe and secure every year and pursue new ways to connect people and payments.

Rules Changes

Expanding Same Day ACH

Supplementing Data Security Requirements

Increasing the Same Day ACH Dollar Limit

Same Day ACH: Moving Payments Faster (Phase 3)

More than 10,000 financial institutions support NACHA. Together, we make billions of transactions safe and secure every year and pursue new ways to connect people and payments.