Join the Payments Innovation Alliance to advance your payments knowledge, influence payments trends, and network with payments executives and professionals from throughout the industry and from around the globe.

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.

To mark the fifth anniversary of Same Day ACH, Nacha has new cases studies showcasing the ways this faster payment method is being put to use.

As Same Day ACH marks its fifth anniversary, Nacha President and CEO Jane Larimer looks at some milestones and what's ahead.

It seems like the bad guys work night and day concocting new ways to separate people and businesses from their money. But when it comes to cybercrime, one scam tops the list: Business Email Compromise (BEC).

Join the Payments Innovation Alliance to advance your payments knowledge, influence payments trends, and network with payments executives and professionals from throughout the industry and from around the globe.

Join the Payments Innovation Alliance to advance your payments knowledge, establish your thought leadership, and connect with potential customers.

As we begin to wind things down and celebrate a successful conference, I’m reminded of an old slogan from the Bell System that said, “It’s the next best thing to being there.”

The Payments Connection tees up five leading-edge financial service providers who will offer a short look at their featured product. Once their presentation is complete, they will answer questions to clarify how their product is a match for a client.

It’s expensive to be poor and unbanked. When a population is left out of the financial system, every transaction has to be done in person, which means walking and sometimes for hours, to pay for goods and services. And to move money, i.e. traveling in cash, from the big cities to rural areas is equally costly and even risky.

Join the Payments Innovation Alliance to advance your payments knowledge, establish your thought leadership, and connect with potential clients.

Like every day of Payments Remote Connect, day 3 provides a top-tier experience beginning with 125 high-quality sessions topped off with entertaining and thought-provoking keynote addresses.

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.

It’s expensive to be poor and unbanked. When a population is left out of the financial system, every transaction has to be done in person, which means walking and sometimes for hours, to pay for goods and services. And to move money, i.e. traveling in cash, from the big cities to rural areas is equally costly and even risky.

A panel of end users and practitioners discusses the key features and drivers of the FedNow Service – and whether they tend to adopt the new payments system when available – as well as how new payments rails may have changed their business models.

Payments Remote Connect builds on yesterday’s sessions and we invite you to try out something new by attending one of the lunch and learns that launch today. However, before we meet for lunch, we hope you’ll join us for our keynote address this morning, which touches on the importance – and the power – of perceptions in the workplace, key relationships needed to ensure your success, and the role authenticity plays in being a powerful leader.

Research shows ACH is a great way for nonprofits to increase and keep sustaining donors while lowering costs. But there’s a problem. “Only 25% of donors are using ACH for recurring donations,” said Brad Smith, Nacha Senior Director, Industry Engagement and Advocacy. “This leaves a giant opportunity for us to do more advocating, more educating.”

L’chaim! Proost! Cheers! However you offer a toast, be sure to bring a glass to raise as you join us tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. ET for the NEACH Payments Group Comedy Show. We’ve got a drink idea to go with the show.

Speaking at the fifth annual Federal Reserve Town Hall at Smarter Faster Payments Remote Connect, Mark Gould, the Federal Reserve’s first Chief Payments Executive, said a key objective is collaboration with stakeholders to “improve the payments system broadly, with a focus on the speed, safety, and efficiency of domestic and cross-border payments.”

The last year and a half was turbulent, but through it all the ACH Network delivered for Americans when they needed it most, while also preparing for a strong future, Nacha President and CEO Jane Larimer said.