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September 15, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic raged across the country, the U.S. government turned to Direct Deposit to deliver millions of stimulus payments to Americans. On April 15, 2020, exactly as the IRS instructed, 81 million Americans woke up to find their stimulus payments safely in their bank accounts…
ACH, ACH Network, ACH Operations, Advocacy, Direct Deposit, Direct Payment via ACH, Faster Payments, Legislative and Regulatory
September 1, 2020
By Richard Oliver & George Warfel Jr.
Written by experienced experts from both the private and the government sector, The Story of Payments: How The Industrialization of Trust Created the Modern Payments System tells the story of how payments – between people, merchants, employers and…
ACH, Other Payments
November 11, 2019
Version 2.x
Version 2 is an architecturally improved version of the IFX Business Message Specification (BMS), including refined adaptation to SOA, a consistently applied object model and important new content IFX Version 2 continues the Forum’s commitment to a business-first, service-…
APIs
November 11, 2019
Diagram
This diagram shows the basic container hierarchy of every object in the IFX Standard. The data attributes commonly associated with an object are found mostly in the xxxInfo segment and the current state of the object is found in the xxxStatus segment.
Extended Discussion…
APIs
November 11, 2019
The IFX standard uses a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework for interactions between businesses and applications. The framework exposes obvious design patterns, standard abbreviations and common message handling techniques that make it easy to work within any business or technical setting…
APIs
June 5, 2019
It’s easy for medical and dental providers to be paid electronically. The Healthcare Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) standard supports HIPAA-compliant transactions between health plans and providers. Required information travels with the payment, simplifying accounting procedures and reducing…
Healthcare, Standards & Regulations
February 4, 2019
API standardization is key to creating efficiency and interoperability in financial services. That’s where Afinis Interoperability Standards comes in. Afinis unites diverse, global stakeholders to bring intelligent innovations to market to advance efficiency, surety, security and…
APIs
February 4, 2019
Payments-related regulatory guidance helps to ensure the security and efficient exchange of ACH transactions and other electronic payments. Regulatory bodies such as FinCEN, FFIEC, OCC and others issue and update guidance regularly, and it is important that financial institutions and other ACH…
ACH, ACH Network, Legislative and Regulatory, Risk & Compliance, Risk Management
July 6, 2018
View the Afinis APIs available for testing and those planned for future development. View detailed documentation and learn how to start testing.
Live APIs
ACH Account Validation (AAV) for use with Phixius
This API, based on the Afinis Account Validation API, enables a Phixius participant…
APIs