Could FedNow pave the way for more ACH settlement windows? At Smarter Faster Payments 2022 there was discussion about whether FedNow's functionality could be applicable to other Fed services, including ACH.

Today, Nacha's Payments Innovation Alliance announced its 2022-2023 Advisory Committees. Working with Nacha staff, the Advisory Committees serve a leadership role to identify and address some of the most important issues facing the payments industry and provide strategic direction to the Alliance.

Aliaswire, a provider of digital payment and credit solutions for businesses and financial institutions, and Nacha today announced that Aliaswire will join the Phixius Peer-to-Peer Network for the exchange of payment-related data. 

In just five short years, Same Day ACH – Nacha’s faster payments solution – has gained remarkable traction, with the payments community putting it to work in several use cases.  

Afinis Interoperability Standards released two APIs to assist financial institutions’ business clients with account ownership validation and with payment initiation. Afinis is a membership-based organization that focuses on the rapid delivery of APIs and other financial services standards across the U.S. and globally.

Nacha has named Dan Roth to the position of Senior Director, Communications.

Nacha has approved Nacha Certified status for Netchex, a provider of payroll and human resources services. 

The future is now – or at least is in the works. Nacha’s new Alliance Project Team has kicked off and designed a plan for the first Faster Payments Professional Certificate, which will allow payments professionals to demonstrate proficiency in the field of faster payments. The team is on track to launch the program in early 2022.

Like peanut butter and jelly or ice cream and hot fudge, fintechs and financial institutions can be a great pairing. But there’s a lot for both sides to think about when considering a partnership.

While there’s an overwhelming desire to return to pre-pandemic life, some changes to the payments landscape are likely permanent—and that’s a good thing.

Adopting the new application programming interfaces will help corporate banking customers better access detailed financial data across banking platforms.

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.

Afinis is a membership-based organization that focuses on the rapid delivery of APIs and other financial services standards across the U.S. and globally.

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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.

The Nacha Operating Rules are changed several times a year on average. The challenge of keeping up led a potential client to Azimuth GRC— and then Azimuth GRC to Nacha Consulting to help build a new offering to meet that need.

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.

Nacha President and CEO Jane Larimer with an invitation to attend Smarter Faster Payments Remote Connect this August for the best in payments education, along with great keynotes, an exciting exhibit hall and the fantastic networking opportunities you expect from Payments.

Afinis Interoperability Standards membership organization, which focuses on the rapid delivery of APIs and other financial services standards across the U.S.

Nacha has approved Nacha Certified status for Bill.com, a leading cloud-based software platform which facilitates ACH payments.