From the Desk of NACHA President & CEO Janet Estep For more than 40 years, Earth Day {www.earthday.org/2012} has served as a reminder of the Earth’s generous yet limited resources, and rekindled the need to protect those resources. April 22nd has been designated as Earth Day – a day when consumers, [...]
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Posted by Digital Transactions 09/28/11 The automated clearing house network took a crucial step toward faster transaction movement last Friday when NACHA, the network’s governing body, distributed a request for comment on a proposal for same-day settlement. NACHA sent the 22-page document, which sets out a proposed system called Expedited Processing and Settlement (EPS), by [...]

Faster clearing and settlement of automated clearing house transactions, hampered by a host of issues and limitations, could be picking up some momentum, albeit slowly. Software is emerging to allow both large and small financial institutions to take advantage of a nearly 1-year-old Federal Reserve service that clears transactions on the same day they are [...]

Denver-based eWise Systems Inc., provider of the switch that runs the new Secure Vault Payments system for online purchases over the automated clearing house network, announced on Tuesday that it had raised $14 million in venture-capital financing. The new financing is significant because it more than doubles all the money that had been invested in [...]

Taking a cue from bank card merchant acquirers, bank processor Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) and NACHA on Monday announced the formation of the Terminated Originator Database, a new service to help banks identify businesses that other banks have cut off from originating automated clearing house transactions because of high risk. NACHA selected Jacksonville, [...]

More than eight months after it introduced same-day settlement for automated clearing house transactions, the Federal Reserve has attracted only a handful of banks for the service. “It’s been a long struggle,†Steven Cordray, retail payments project manager at the Atlanta Fed’s Retail Payments Office tells Digital Transactions News. Speaking on Monday at Payments 2011, [...]

Beginning on Sept. 16, 2011, an originator may obtain a consumer’s oral authorization for recurring TEL transactions. NACHA (the National Automated Clearing House Association) recently amended its Operating Rules to expand the scope of the Telephone-Initiated Entry (TEL) appli cation to permit its use for recurring consumer transactions. A TEL entry allows merchants or creditors [...]
February 22, 2011 To: Board of Directors Regional Payments Associations Direct FI Members Council Members ACH Operators From: NACHA Member Communications Action Requested: Recipients of this email may communicate the contents of this notification to their members, customers, and business partners. This email is for notification purposes and should not be used for any purpose [...]

Starting in March, checks sent to lockboxes and some point of sale transactions can be processed by merchants and billers through the automated clearing house system without offering consumers a chance to opt out under new rules set by NACHA, the ACH’s regulatory organization. The new rules, which will be effective March 18 and will [...]

(April 7, 2010) as posted on Digital Transactions A soft economy didn’t prevent automated clearing house transaction volumes from growing last year, though the rate of increase slowed, according to new data from NACHA—The Electronic Payments Association. The Herndon, Va.-based governing body of the ACH reports total transactions rose 2.6% to 18.76 billion from 18.29 [...]
As posted by Digital Transactions (February 2, 2010) As financial institutions find themselves processing more and more international transactions through a new application on the automated clearing house, the burden of sorting out payments that match various watch lists is mounting fast. That’s creating an opportunity for processors and software vendors. One of the first [...]
By Marcia Savage, Site Editor 03 Nov 2009 | SearchFinancialSecurity.com The surge of Automated Clearing House (ACH) fraud committed by criminals stealing the online banking credentials of small and midsize businesses has resulted in approximately $100 million in attempted losses, according to the FBI. Criminals are hitting businesses at a rapid clip, with several new [...]
Posted by Digital Transactions (June 16, 2009) With the deadline just three months away, the banking industry is scrambling to implement IAT, the new automated clearing house code for international transactions. IAT originally was to take effect March 20. But NACHA—The Electronic Payments Association, governing body of the ACH, last July pushed it back to [...]





