Through project teams, members collaborate to influence existing and emerging payment trends, drive change, remove barriers and support innovation. Deliverables from Alliance initiatives include creating resources and tools, developing best practices and testing proof of concepts – ultimately shaping the future of payments.

The Alliance welcomes new project team members and the collaboration of ideas. To join a project team, you must be an Alliance member in good standing and be able to participate consistently during scheduled meetings. Project teams typically meet monthly via conference call and in-person at the winter and fall Alliance meetings. Continue scrolling down to learn more about each of our active initiatives and contact us to join a team.

We encourage you to watch the video above to see Alliance members in action, as well as review the features of Alliance membership. Then reach out to us to join. We look forward to welcoming you into the Nacha family.

This team, in collaboration with the U.S. Faster Payments Council, is developing tools for financial institutions and business end users that are seeking direction and clarity on faster payments. Previously, the team published the Faster Payments Playbook and Faster Payments 101 for financial institutions. Currently, the team is developing an interactive resource for corporates. 

This team addresses the critical topic of conversational payments, which is an emerging channel where consumers use devices such as Alexa or Google Home to conduct banking or make payments. This team just released the first in a series of Executive Briefs that will serve as an introduction to the team’s work and provide an overview to voice payments, a subset of conversational payments. 

This team develops tools and resources to help organizations understand evolving threats and identify questions and topics to address before, during and after a cyberattack. The team recently published a top 10 list of COVID-19 Best Fraud Prevention and Cybersecurity Practices. Previously, the team developed a template for organizations to use providing guidance and considerations in responding to security incidents. Download the Security Incident Response Timeline. 

This team is currently developing a tool that will help small and medium-sized businesses more readily understand how they can use ACH to make and receive B2C payments for a variety of use cases. Recently, this team launched the ACH Quick Start Tool, an interactive online resource to help businesses understand how they can use ACH to enable B2B payments.

This team is finalizing the content for a resource for developers who need to code to the Nacha Operating Rules format, but are not Rules experts. The team is currently finalizing content, which will include file formats, scenarios for using specific data elements, and information on where to find additional details in the Rules.