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June 3, 2025
ACH Operations Bulletin #1-2025-Same-Day Processing of ACH Returns by RDFIs
… for administrative reasons: Return Reason Codes R02 (Account Closed), R03 (No Account/Unable to Locate Account), and R04 (Invalid Account Number Structure). …
January 14, 2025
ACH Operations Bulletin #4-2024-Importance of Maintaining Up-to-Date Routing Transit Numbers
… payment system that reaches all U.S. bank and credit union accounts. ACH payments are routed utilizing the routing … financial institution to be posted to the authorized account. Similarly, because the originating institution’s … respectively) have specific rules requiring routing number validation. These rules require an Originator to establish …
July 24, 2024
ACH Operations Bulletin #2-2024: Voluntary Formatting Standard for Individual Name Field
… The Nacha Rules permit an RDFI to rely solely on the account number when posting an Entry. 1 Finally, this … Discussion RDFIs have a view of incoming Entries as well as account profile information and historic activity on Receivers’ accounts. A risk-based approach to monitoring incoming ACH …
March 29, 2023
ACH Operations Bulletin #1-2014: Questionable ACH Debit Origination: Roles and Responsibilities of ODFIs and RDFIs
… lenders, in using the ACH Network to debit consumers’ accounts. In some instances, RDFIs were erroneously singled … a role in those practices simply by allowing consumers’ accounts to be debited in accordance with the Nacha Rules . … parties use “remotely created checks” to debit consumers’ accounts. [3] This ACH Operations Bulletin is intended to …
March 27, 2023
ACH Operations Bulletin #2-2012: Third-Party Tax Payments Banking Convention (Revised 7/23/13)
… to a state taxing agency.  In order to properly post and account for these payments, there is a need to identify both … this information to accurately apply credits to taxpayer accounts and research any payment errors or posting …
March 27, 2023
ACH Operations Bulletin #1-2017: Social Engineering Fraud Against Public-Sector and Other Entities
… entities into redirecting legitimate vendor payments to accounts controlled by the fraudsters. Although any business … for that contractor. The update could be new routing and account information for ACH or wire payments, or a request … from check to ACH or wire payments along with routing and account information. In these cases, the update did not come …
March 27, 2023
ACH Operations Bulletin #4-2017: Managing the Risks of Consumer-to-Other-Consumer Debits
… providers are allowing consumers to debit other consumers’ accounts. This ACH Operations Bulletin [1] provides guidance … and enabling consumers to transfer funds from their own accounts - i.e., an account-to- account transfer. For such an A2A debit, a …
July 14, 2022
ACH Operations Bulletin #7-2020 Nacha Provides Update on COVID-19 Relief and Upcoming Effective Dates
… 2021 – Supplemental Fraud Detection for WEB Debits (i.e., Account Validation). ACH Originators are required to include account validation within a commercially reasonably …
July 11, 2022
ACH Operations Bulletin #4-2019: Extension of the Effective Date for Rule Supplementing Fraud Detection Standards for WEB Debits
… to screen WEB debits. The new rule makes explicit that account validation is an inherent part of any commercially … of WEB debits will be required to validate the Receiver’s account number for its first use with a WEB debit entry, and …

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