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23, the industry welcomed the rollout of ubiquitous faster payments to every consumer and business in the U.S. NACHA’s launch of Same Day ACH ushered in three settlement windows, enabling ACH payments to be received same day. Much like ISO 20022, tokenization is not a new concept for NACHA. via all banks and credit unions.
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