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New Nacha Rules Take Aim at Credit-Push Fraud

NACHA

HERNDON, Virginia, March 18, 2024 – Nacha members have approved a set of rules intended to reduce the incidence of frauds, such as business email compromise (BEC), that make use of credit-push payments. The new rules establish a base-level of ACH payment monitoring on all parties in the ACH Network (except consumers).

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Breaking Down The Faster Payments Construct

PYMNTS

Same Day ACH will create a new option for faster payments for all the banks and credit unions across the U.S. Two new same-day settlement windows will be added to the ACH Network, which will increase the actual movement of funds between all those financial institutions from once a day (at the beginning of the day) to three times a day.

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Forty Is The New Faster (Payments)

PYMNTS

23) marks the launch of Same Day ACH, with three settlement windows enabling consumers and businesses to receive credit, same day, for payments made to them. But in many ways, today’s milestone is all about what’s next for ACH. Same Day ACH Phase Two is all about debits — to be enabled by all banks in the U.S.

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US Finds Its Faster Payments Future

PYMNTS

Same Day ACH, the faster payments initiative for banks and other financial institutions in the United States, seems to be popular. It needs to not be based on a debit pull, but instead, it’s a credit push transaction, so all transactions must be initiated by the sender.”. But the U.S. Around the Faster Payments world.

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Walmart Taps Fiserv to Offer Pay by Bank

Finovate

Bloomberg unveiled this week that, while the retailer has offered pay-by-bank via Walmart Pay for a few months now, the payments were routed through ACH payment rails and still took days to clear. The platform will facilitate authentication and securely link bank accounts.

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Past Lessons May Prove Invaluable For US Real-Time Payments Rollout

PYMNTS

One of the largest concerns regarding real-time payments is for the banks to be able to identify and mitigate a fraudulent transaction that is settled far more quickly than even same-day ACH payments today. Of course, real-time ACH payments and card payments are hardly birds of a feather. Luckily, U.S.

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FPC 2023 Fall Member Meeting

Faster Payments Council

Few use cases have the potential for growing volumes as do commerce payments yet paying a merchant with a credit push transfer isn't easy. The presentation will diagram & outline how a reserve account is used for payment transactions from FedNow, ACH, RTP, etc.

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