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.

The ACH Network is the backbone of the U.S. financial system and benefits consumers, businesses and government agencies. While many consumers are unaware of the name ACH, they are aware of electronic bank transfers, electronic funds transfers and similar terms.

It’s called the ACH Contact Registry, but it’s being used for a whole lot more. Learn how a credit union uses the Registry to find contacts at other financial institutions to check on wires.

Meaningful Modernization is coming very soon. Learn more about it in this blog and the accompanying Nacha podcast.

A survey by RMAG found no increase in fraud attributable to the later hours for submitting Same Day ACH payments.

Robust growth continued for the modern ACH Network in the second quarter of 2021. Payment volume climbed 9.9%, with particularly strong growth in business-to-business (B2B) payments.

Your sales are humming along, bills and invoices are being sent to customers, and the payments are flowing back to your company—and there are a lot of payments. That’s good news. But, that’s also where Goofus processes may lurk!

It's Simplify Your Life Week, and Nacha has some excellent ideas to help you make things easier by using electronic payments.

Nacha has created an Opt-In Program to better facilitate the return and recovery of potentially fraudulent unemployment benefits originally paid by ACH credits. The program is designed to help improve the recovery of funds that may have been disbursed to inappropriate parties.

As the pandemic winds down, both consumers and merchants are beginning  to figure out what the “new normal” will be. This is especially true for the way they interact with money. People are paying at the register with their phones, and merchants are accepting alternative payment methods.

Naysayers want you to believe there is no hope in preventing or surviving a ransomware attack, so you should just give up now.

Nacha is among the more than 50 organizations supporting Wisconsin Saves, which aims to get people to save automatically using Split Deposit.

Whether your credit union uses the ACH Network a little or a lot, there are rules to be followed and framework requiring compliance and controls.

The third window for submitting Same Day ACH payments to the ACH Network has quickly gained acceptance among financial institutions, according to new survey results conducted by Nacha and its Risk Management Advisory Group (RMAG).  

So far in the 2021 tax filing season 90% of federal refunds have been paid by Direct Deposit, according to the IRS.

Although enforcement of the ACH Contact Registry Rule doesn’t begin until Aug. 1, Nacha is already making spot-checks for data quality.

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.

In the upcoming weeks, there are important implementation dates and deadlines for ACH Network participants to be aware of. Three upcoming Rules go into effect June 30, while feedback to a Request for Comment are due July 1 and to a Request for Information are due July 16.

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.