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New Nacha Fraud Rules Highlight Utility of AI
Security & Fraud // March 18, 2024

For financial institutions and stakeholders, the twin threats of business email compromise (BEC) and credit-push fraud demand more monitoring — and advanced technologies to do so. Nacha introduced new rules Monday (March 18) that create a “base level of ACH monitoring for all parties in the ACH Network”...

Nacha Expands Receiving Depository Financial Institutions’ Role in Fighting Fraud
Security & Fraud // March 18, 2024

Receiving depository financial institutions (RDFIs) now have a defined role in monitoring the ACH payments they receive. The newly defined role was established as part of a set of new rules approved by Nacha members, aiming to combat fraud that makes use of credit-push payments, Nacha, which governs the...

Nacha Reports 22.3% Volume Gains in ’23 for Same Day ACH; B2B Payments Up 10.8%
Faster Payments // February 14, 2024

Same Day ACH and B2B payments on the ACH Network each saw double-digit growth in volume in 2023. These segments made these gains during a year in which the ACH Network overall saw payment volume rise 4.8% compared to 2022, according to a Wednesday (Feb....

Why Lifecycle Management Matters When Fighting Payments Fraud
Security & Fraud // December 07, 2023

Brian Holbrook, director of product strategy at LSEG Risk Intelligence, told PYMNTS in an interview that financial institutions (FIs) are going to have to gird for changes in how they conduct and approach risk management. Nacha, he said, cleared more than 30 billion transactions, with...

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New Nacha Fraud Rules Highlight Utility of AI

March 18, 2024
For financial institutions and stakeholders, the twin threats of business email compromise (BEC) and credit-push fraud demand more monitoring — and advanced technologies to do so. Nacha introduced new rules Monday (March 18) that create a “base level of ACH monitoring for all parties in the ACH Network” with the exception of consumers. “The rules are designed to […]

Why Lifecycle Management Matters When Fighting Payments Fraud

December 07, 2023
Brian Holbrook, director of product strategy at LSEG Risk Intelligence, told PYMNTS in an interview that financial institutions (FIs) are going to have to gird for changes in how they...

The Clearing House: ACH Paves Way for Real-Time Payments On-Ramp

March 18, 2022
Checks and card transactions are giving way to electronic payments, done through an automated clearinghouse (ACH). Jason Carone, senior vice president of ACH product management at The Clearing House (TCH),...

Debit Account Validation Manages ACH Fraud Amid Faster Payment Changes

May 13, 2021
Faster payments have grown at breakneck speed over the past few years. In the first quarter of 2020 alone, it’s setting new records in payment volumes and payment values. Coinciding...

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Nacha Expands Receiving Depository Financial Institutions’ Role in Fighting Fraud

March 18, 2024
Receiving depository financial institutions (RDFIs) now have a defined role in monitoring the ACH payments they receive. The newly defined role was established as part of a set of new rules approved by Nacha members, aiming to combat fraud that makes use of credit-push payments, Nacha, which governs the ACH Network, said in a Monday (March 18) press release. […]

Nacha Reports 22.3% Volume Gains in ’23 for Same Day ACH; B2B Payments Up 10.8%

February 14, 2024
Same Day ACH and B2B payments on the ACH Network each saw double-digit growth in volume in 2023. These segments made these gains during a year in which the ACH...

ACH Network Payment Volume Climbs 20% in Q3

October 17, 2023
ACH Network parent company Nacha says it is reaping the benefit of increased B2B payments. Continued adoption of same-day automated clearing house (ACH) payments and the rise in business-to-business (B2B) payments...

Nacha: Same-Day ACH Payment Values Jump 51%

July 25, 2023
The head of the ACH Network says same-day ACH payments have grown “significantly” in 2023. In the first six months of the year, the value of those payments was nearly $1.2 trillion,...