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New NACHA Rule Could Catch Payment Processors, Merchants, FIs Off-Guard

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In a new PYMNTS interview, David Barnhardt, executive vice president of product at GIACT , which offers fraud detection and account validation tools, talks about an upcoming change by NACHA, national administrator of the ACH network, to make internet-initiated debit transactions (WEB debits) safer and more seamless. New NACHA Rule.

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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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Panel members included Russ Waterhouse , EVP at The Clearing House; Mike Kresse , SVP card and money movement at FIS; Jane Larimer , CEO at Nacha; David Scola , chief executive, Americas and UK at SWIFT; and Jeremy Allaire , CEO at Circle. Moving Beyond ACH . But the faster payment systems are showing advantages, too, he said.

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NACHA: Same-Day ACH Payments Totaled $5B in October

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The Electronic Payments Association, NACHA, has released volume data tied to the first calendar month of same-day ACH transactions. That matched its expectations for volume and value based on dialogues with industry stakeholders and also projected use cases, said NACHA. For the month, Same Day ACH was responsible for 3.8

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How to Choose Between EFT vs ACH: A Comprehensive Guide

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Interconnecting 10,000 US banks and credit unions, this network continues to receive high demand. ACH payments are grouped and then processed in batches four times per business day by the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Another EFT type that businesses rely on is ACH. Lets look into that closely below.

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NACHA Talks Faster Payments, CHOICE Act At Capitol Hill Day

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Earlier this month, NACHA (the National Automated Clearinghouse Association) sent its Government Relations Advisory Group on its annual pilgrimage to Capitol Hill. NACHA’s Bill Sullivan gave the recap to PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster. What NACHA has done that no one else in the U.S.

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New Payment Rails Take On Real-Time B2B Friction

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The latest data from Nacha found a new record-high growth rate for adoption of ACH payments , with B2B payments showcasing a surge in adoption of the legacy payment rail that has recently turned to technologies that can augment the service, from the movement of transaction data with an ACH payment to the deployment of Same Day ACH.

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NACHA Pinpoints B2B’s Role In Same Day ACH Adoption (So Far)

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On Friday (April 14), NACHA released more stats about ACH to explore how businesses are using the payment rail — same-day or not. On Friday (April 14), NACHA released more stats about ACH to explore how businesses are using the payment rail — same-day or not. trillion, NACHA said. billion, worth a collective $43.7