Nacha’s Risk Management Advisory Group has been evaluating potential risk increases and decreases due to Same Day ACH. It has consistently found no justification to fears that Same Day ACH would introduce massive amounts of risk.

Nacha announced today the addition of North American Banking Company as a Nacha Direct Financial Institution Member. Nacha now has more than 40 Direct Members, consisting of financial institutions and Payments Associations (PAs) that collectively represent nearly all financial institutions across the U.S.

With the economic slowdown that resulted from the pandemic, the Nacha Risk Management Advisory Group (RMAG) updated its recommendations for ODFIs on sound business practice on exposure risk management. 

The new Warranty Claims Rule taking effect June 30 establishes specific time periods for RDFIs to make claims based on unauthorized entries and brings the ACH Network in line with other payment systems that have time limits.

Happy Remote Connect Day! Today marks 75 days until Nacha’s Smarter Faster Payments Remote Connect gets underway. The fact that Remote Connect offers the best in payments education is reason itself to celebrate, but Nacha is going one better. 

When it comes to B2B, sometimes processing payments can be a job in and of itself. Moving the money isn’t complicated, but what’s involved before and after a payment is. Those are among the reasons why Nacha created Phixius.

A new Limitation on Warranty Claims Rule takes effect June 30, 2021, and Nacha's General Counsel said a key goal is “to give Originators more certainty on the time they may face claims on entries that they put into the ACH Network."

Nacha announces Phixius, a platform that facilitates the trusted exchange of payment-related information, has onboarded three participants so far in 2021.

“What is the difference between EFT, ACH and EDI?” We often get asked this question from business financial teams - even from seasoned financial pros. The quick answer is that all ACH (Automated Clearing House) payments are EFTs (Electronic Funds Transfers), but not all EFT payments are ACH. And EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is a data format, not a payment.

Bringing ACH processing in-house is a major decision for any financial institution. There’s a lot to consider—including things you might not have considered.

July is traditionally when Nacha holds the Payments Institute. Last July was very different. This July will only be slightly different. 

Under the Nacha Operating Rules, information in the ACH Contact Registry must be kept up to date. Is your financial institution's contact info current?

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Access to the Rules & Guidelines helps to identify new opportunities to leverage the ACH Network to meet customer’s needs, while maintaining a clear understanding of network requirements.

On June 30, Nacha will implement three new rules: Reversals and Enforcement, Supplementing Data Security, and Limitation on Warranty Claims.

Read our case study to see how the steward of the ACH Network is putting the power of ACH behind its accounts payable and accounts receivable.

April is National Volunteer Month and we’d like to recognize each of you who have devoted so much of your time and energy to Afinis Interoperability Standards. It is because of your valuable contributions that this organization is what it is today.

Learn more about the Limitation on Warranty Claims Rule effective June 30, 2021.

Business Email Compromise and check fraud continued to give U.S. companies major headaches in 2020, a new report from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) found.

The ACH Network set two records in the first quarter of 2021, and Same Day ACH marked its 1 billionth payment.