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Dodging Faster Fraud In A Same-Day ACH Environment

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There’s much to look forward to as the September rollout of Phase 2 of Same Day ACH (Debit Pull) looms, but David Barnhardt, executive vice president of full-service payment and verification solutions provider GIACT , thinks there’s just as much reason for caution. “I I think people are going to slowly fill it out.”.

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How to Choose Between EFT vs ACH: A Comprehensive Guide

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Thats why 92% of consumers and 82% of companies reportedly made the switch to electronic payments, like Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT) and Automated Clearing House (ACH). EFT and ACH payments are fast, secure, and hassle-free. Another EFT type that businesses rely on is ACH. Checks can bounce, and cash can get lost.

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How Small Businesses Ride Their Payment Rails

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NACHA released new statistics late last week on growth of ACH transaction volume in the U.S. According to the firm, B2B transactions were a key driver of ACH transaction growth in the third quarter of the year, leading NACHA Chief Operating Officer Jane Larimer to describe the ACH Network as “thriving.”. In all, more than 3.3

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day. And finally, that the banks and the card networks are the big losers. Then came PayPal’s debut of Instant Transfer to Bank. A Couple of Important Dots.

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Real-Time Payments Steps Up To Fulfill Demand For Faster Funds

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Desiring to access faster rails and the electricity around P2P transfers, consumers and businesses are driving the market’s obsession with speedier money during recovery. To paraphrase the movie “Top Gun” … “We feel the need … the need for speed.” Clearly, paper checks aren’t cutting it anymore. We’ve evolved.

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The Big Tech Canary In The Faster Payments Coal Mine

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That was the day that an advocacy group, Financial Innovation Now (FIN), submitted a public comment letter to the Fed in response to its proposal to create and operate a real-time payments system in the U.S. It flew in on Dec. 14, the Friday before the week before Christmas, so you might not have noticed. Here’s where the canary flew in.

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New Year’s Resolution: The Clearing House Urges Banks To Become 24/7 Operations

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It also pushed our industry to think about ways to provide faster availability of funds to people and businesses in need.”. A lot of what the pandemic did was force our industry to truly be digital, to facilitate frictionless transactions,” TCH Senior Vice President Elena Whisler said in a recent conversation with PYMNTS. “A

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