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What Is an ACH API and How Does It Work?

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TL;DR An ACH API allows businesses to automate bank-to-bank payments—like ACH debits, credits, and recurring payments—by integrating directly with the ACH network via software. What is an ACH API? Your bank (the ODFI) will collect all the transaction files you sent and forward them to an ACH operator.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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That’s the talk track now from the Fed , which a week ago today announced its plans to build and operate a new set of real-time rails, using accelerated access to employer paychecks as its launch use case. Ironically, perhaps, the ACH network’s first direct deposit use case was the U.S.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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And finally, that the banks and the card networks are the big losers. Last week, NACHA issued an ACH operations bulletin announcing the delay of the rollout of a third Same Day ACH (SDA) processing window by six months, to March 19, 2021. and one of two operators of the ACH network in the U.S.,