Payments SmartCast

Registration just opened for Smarter Faster Payments 2024, which will take place in Miami from Monday, May 6 through Thursday, May 9. The conference again promises to be our industry’s premier event, drawing thousands of payments professionals to participate in more than 100 educational sessions. In this episode Carl Slabicki, the co-head of Global Payments at BNY Treasury Services and chair of th...

Nacha recently updated the ACH Compliance Manual which offers crisp insights into authorizations, processing and more from Nacha’s subject matter experts. Hear from Nacha’s Danita Tyrrell, Senior Director, ACH Network Rules Development & Technical Support, and Annette Brown, Assistant Director, ACH Network Rules to understand why the 11th edition of the ACH Compliance Manual is an essential to...

The 8th Edition of the ACH Risk Management Handbook is available in the Nacha Store as well as from the Payments Associations. Angi Farren, President and CEO of the Upper Midwest ACH Association (UMACHA), joins Jordan Bennett, Senior Director of ACH Network Risk Management at Nacha, to discuss how the Handbook helps put risk-related topics in layman’s terms and is one of the go-to resources for an...

Bill Sullivan, Nacha's Senior Director and Group Manager for Government and Industry Relations, and Jeremy Pritchard, Director of Client Consulting for Treasury Services at Cadence Bank, talk about their recent experience participating in Nacha's Hill Climb, where they joined Nacha members from across the country to sit down with members of Congress and their staff to discuss the critical role the...

Stephanie Prebish, AAP, APRP, CTP, Nacha Managing Director, Association Services and Nell Campbell-Drake, Vice President, Industry Relations, at Federal Reserve Financial Services, and a member of the 2024 Smarter Faster Payments Planning Committee break down how to craft a successful session proposal for next year’s Smarter Faster Payments Conference, taking place Monday, May 6 through Thursday,...

Dalbir Sahota (Senior Director, Product Management, Bankers Almanac) and Cindy Printer (Director Market Planning for Payments) from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions chat with Rob Unger (Senior Director of Product Management & Strategic Initiatives) from Phixius by Nacha about the unique partnership between these two renowned organizations, enabling their customers to instantly verify account details...

Joe W. Hussey, Senior Vice President of Global Treasury Management at Wells Fargo and Chairperson of the Nacha Board of Directors, Philip C. Picillo, Esq., CTP, Executive Managing Director of Treasury Management Integration at Webster Bank and Chair of the 2023 Smarter Faster Payments Conference Planning Committee, and Stephanie Prebish, AAP, APRP, CTP, Managing Director of Association Services at...

Angel Grant, Vice President of Security at F5, gives a preview of her session at Smarter Faster Payments 2023: Navigating Payments Security and Privacy in the New World: Metaverse, Web3 & NFTs. Ashley Mustico, Director of Education and Accreditation at Nacha, joins to highlight additional sessions and why payments professionals should register for Smarter Faster Payments 2023, taking place in...

Whether you are a payments veteran or new to the industry, TPI On Campus, taking place July 16-19 in Atlanta, is where you can grow your payments skills. And July 19 and 20, Nacha is offering the Risk Retreat, where you will explore risk, compliance, and legal-related concepts and implement your learning. Tim Mills, Jen Wasmund and Ashley Mustico, all of whom have been instrumental in putting TPI...

In this episode Nacha speaks with James Flowers, Director of Process & Change Delivery at Ally Bank, one of 446 professionals who hold both the AAP and APRP credentials, to discuss how earning Nacha credentials enhanced his career trajectory and how he prepared for both exams. We also speak with Heather von Kriegenbergh, Deposit Operations Specialist at BankProv and one of the 251 payments pro...

To lift himself out of depression, Ben Nemtin developed a seemingly impossible bucket list, including playing basketball with President Obama. Then he gathered a group of friends and set out to check the items off the list. Not only did he shoot hoops with the president, but he discovered happiness and joy along the way. Listen to Ben talk about his Bucket List Journey, and then register for Smart...

Shola Richards brings his passion and energy for the benefits of focusing on kindness and civility in the workplace. Listen to his discussion about how creating an organizational culture based on positivity is essential for long-term success, and then register for Smarter Faster Payments, taking place in Las Vegas April 16-19, where you can hear him speak live!

Nacha's subject matter experts recently updated the payments publication "Third-Party Senders and the ACH Network". Listen in to hear more about how the new edition considers both the ODFI and the Third-Party Sender on the latest Nacha Operating Rules changes, provides tips on risk management, and offers real-world examples of Third-Party Sender relationships.

Amy Morris, Senior Director of ACH Network Rules at Nacha, discusses Nacha's Micro-Entry Rule, what it means, timelines and enforcement, the transactions that are impacted, and what organizations that use Micro-Entries need to do to comply with the Rule.

Nacha just opened registration for Smarter Faster Payments 2023, which will take place April 16-19 in Las Vegas. Nell Campbell-Drake, Vice President of Industry Relations for Federal Reserve Financial Services and a member of the Payments 2023 Conference Planning Committee, and Stephanie Prebish, Managing Director of Association Services at Nacha, talk about the conference, the topics the sessions...

Nacha Rules now require ACH users to include account validation within a commercially reasonably fraudulent transaction detection system for the first use of new account information. Created and operated by Nacha, Phixius is a peer-to-peer network where financial institutions, fintechs and businesses can exchange and verify payment-related information securely, instantly, and across multiple payme...

After a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nacha's in-person Smarter, Faster Payments Conference will return May 1-4 in Nashville, Tennessee. With May just around the corner, participants can save hundreds of dollars by registering before March 18.  

On January 24, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service began accepting and processing 2021 tax year returns. Bill Sullivan, Nacha's Senior Director & Group Manager for Government & Industry Relations, sat down with Ken Corbin, the Wage and Investment Commissioner and Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer at the IRS, to discuss how choosing direct deposit will help taxpayers receive their tax refund...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government provided much-needed resources to millions of Americans,  including child tax credit payments and economic impact payments. Bill Sullivan, Nacha's Senior Director & Group Manager for Government & Industry Relations, discusses with Ken Corbin, the Wage and Investment Commissioner and Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer at the IRS, the ACH...

The ACH Network saw new challenges in 2021, from economic impact payments and child tax credits to a surge in B2B payments. But Nacha President and CEO Jane Larimer says she believes the ACH Network “met all of the challenges the year threw at it with aplomb.” Join Jane Larimer for the year in review and a look ahead to 2022.

Same Day ACH marks its fifth anniversary in September 2021. Learn more about its inception, the practical application for businesses, and a perspective on what’s next for Same Day ACH, as we chat with Mike Herd, Nacha Senior Vice President, ACH Network Administration.

Meaningful Modernization is coming very soon. Learn more about what these Nacha Rules changes mean for ACH Network participants. Featured guest: Mike Herd, Senior Vice President, ACH Network Administration, Nacha

One of Nacha’s goals has been to increase the use of ACH by charitable and religious groups. To that end, Nacha recently completed a major overhaul of its Nonprofit Toolkit, which has pretty much everything a charitable group would need to start or expand an ACH program. The Toolkit is available at ACHgiving.org . But there are still some challenges to ACH acceptance among both charities and their...

Nacha subject matter experts explain why this recently updated publication benefits you and your organization. The 7th edition explains the types of ACH payments risk, assesses the operational implications and provides sound business practices for developing an effective risk management program.

Written by experienced experts from both the private and the government sector, this new book is a practical manual for those who make and receive payments, an instructional manual for those who work in payments, and a fascinating historical exploration of the role the world’s payment systems have played in creating the commercial society we live in today. Get your copy today at www.nacha.org/cont...