NACHA said automated clearing house volume in the first quarter totaled 6 billion payments that included 3.5 billion debit transactions and 2.5 billion credit transactions. Internet-initiated payments increased 10.3% to 1.6 billion. Same-day ACH transactions totaled 52.7 million, up 24% from a year prior. NACHA also launched the NACHA Corporate …
Read More »The Fed Says an Announcement About Operating a Real-Time Payment System Is a Ways Off
Will it or won’t it? Those eagerly awaiting word about whether the Federal Reserve will directly operate a real-time gross settlement system will have to wait a bit longer. The Fed last October said it was considering whether to directly develop and operate a RTGS system as an outgrowth of …
Read More »As Estep Opts for Retirement, Larimer Will Take Over As NACHA CEO in July
Long-time NACHA president and chief executive Jan Estep will cede that role July 1 to chief operating officer Jane Larimer, the organization announced Monday. Estep will formally retire at the end of the year, NACHA said, following a confidential process she set in motion late in 2018 with NACHA’s board …
Read More »The Latest AFP Fraud Study Unveils a Surprising Jump in Fraud on the ACH
Which payment method holds the dubious distinction of racking up the fastest growth in fraud last year? According to the latest annual fraud report from the Association for Financial Professionals, it’s debits and credits on the automated clearing house network. In fact, the ACH was the only payment method examined …
Read More »ACH Fraud up, Says AFP and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/9/19
There has been a “noticeable increase” in fraud on credits and debits on the automated clearing house network, according to the latest “Payments Fraud and Control Survey Report” from the Association for Financial Professionals. Some 33% of responding organizations reported ACH debit fraud in 2018, up from 28% in 2017, …
Read More »Cardtronics Add Cardless Cash Feature to 11,000 ATMs and other Digital Transactions New briefs from 4/5/19
Cardtronics plc completed the integration of FIS Cardless Cash into 11,000 ATMs and expects to add 8,000 machines over the next several months. Cardtronics and Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) announced the integration in 2017. Online lending platform OnDeck said it will begin funding small-business clients with same-day credits …
Read More »NACHA Notes 27 Billion ACH Transactions and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/29/19
NACHA, the regulatory body for the automated clearing house network, reported 27 billion ACH transactions for 2018, including 23 billion on the network and 4.1 billion off-network transactions, including mostly on-us volume. PayPal Holdings Inc. is closing two offices in Hunt Valley, Md., and will lay off their 380 workers …
Read More »After a Decade of Experience, Banks Get More Comfortable With Mobile-Capture Risk
Ten years after remote deposit capture became a commercial proposition, banks that offer the service are progressively allowing customers to deposit larger and larger sums. Indeed, as of this month, slightly more than half are applying per-item limits somewhere between $2,001 and $5,000, compared to 49% a year ago and …
Read More »COMMENTARY: As Banks Adopt Real-Time Payments, Disconnects Can Trip Them up
By Debra Campbell and Steve Fortson As the banking industry moves toward real-time payments, there are some practical technology considerations that are too often being overlooked, most notably, a growth of fragmented and unstructured connections between the legacy mainframe and the service-oriented architecture (SOA) platforms. Unfortunately, what we are seeing …
Read More »eBay Adds Google Pay and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 3/21/19
The eBay Inc. online marketplace is adding Google Pay as a payment option as it rolls out its new managed-payments platform to sellers. Google Pay will be activated in April and will be available via the app or mobile Web, and users will be able to use it on desktops …
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