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. 

As a general rule, faster is better. After all, who doesn’t like less traffic, or a plane that lands early? By the same token, who wouldn’t want to get their money quicker? That’s why there’s a lot to like about the new rule making ACH credits available in bank accounts sooner.  

Payroll impersonation and redirection fraud is a fact of life today, but Nacha has a new way to help fight it: The Payroll Credit formatting standard for ACH payroll files.

ORLANDO, Fla.—Jane Larimer never tires of telling people “the ACH Network is thriving” and for good reason: “Because it is.” Even as new payment methods emerge, Larimer believes ACH will have a place at the table. “There’s room and opportunity for all payments,” Larimer, Nacha’s chief operating officer, told a Smarter. Faster. Payments 2019 session on the future of the ACH Network. 

ORLANDO, Fla.—ACH is, and will remain, a vital part of the nation’s payment system, a senior Federal Reserve official told a Nacha conference. “We still expect the ACH Network to continue to be part of the backbone of the U.S. payment system. At the Federal Reserve we are still committed to that,” said Nell Campbell-Drake, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.