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Financial Inclusion and Direct Deposit: FDIC Report Shows Pandemic Relief Helped Encourage Bank Account Openings
The ability to quickly receive pandemic-related benefits led some of the nation’s previously “unbanked” households to open bank accounts, which contributed to a continuing decline in the number of unbanked Americans, a new federal report found. The “2021 …
NASHVILLE, Tennessee —Could FedNow pave the way for more ACH settlement windows? A major stumbling block to expanding ACH hours is that the Federal Reserve’s National Settlement Service (NSS) for interbank settlement closes at the end of the business day …
Mercator Advisory Group recently held a webinar to further discuss the findings of its new white paper titled “The Expanding Role of ACH in the Era of Faster Payments.” Michael Herd, Nacha’s Senior Vice President of ACH Network Administration, and Sarah …
The Payments Innovation Alliance, along with Nacha and the Payments Associations, are on track to launch the first Faster Payments Professional Certificate in 2022. The FPP will allow payments professionals to demonstrate proficiency in the field of …
All those who don’t like getting their money faster can stop reading here. For the rest of us, if you’re expecting (or at least hoping for) a tax refund this year, make sure to give the IRS your Direct Deposit information. It’s a great idea in general, …
Within four days of the Maryland RELIEF Act of 2021 becoming law, the state processed 98% of the payments—nearly two-thirds of which were made by Direct Deposit. How did they do it? In a word, preparation. The RELIEF (Recovery for the Economy, …
After giving Uncle Sam a loan out of your pay it’s nice to get a tax refund. And so much the better when it arrives quickly and is immediately available to use. Direct Deposit accomplishes that, and new stats show it’s being used by more Americans this …
Direct Deposit is one of those things that’s easy to take for granted. Yet, like clockwork, it delivers employees' salaries each payday, as well as Social Security and veterans’ benefits. In fact, a 2022 American Payroll Association survey of some 29,000 …
While it’s not officially the end of summer—that comes Sept. 22—Labor Day is the last hurrah for many of us before autumn takes over. Why would you want to spend any of that precious long weekend time dealing with a paper paycheck? For many Americans, …