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NACHA Postpones Same-Day ACH Window Due To Fed Board

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NACHA, national administrator of the ACH network, said a third processing window for same-day transactions will be postponed for six months until the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Fed Board) approves the initiative. The passage was contingent upon the approval of the Federal Reserve Board by June 30 of this year.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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Connecting these two dots suggests a few important things that, for banks and card networks, might be the 2020 hindsight that could have come in handy had they stopped to look backwards a few years ago: That the Fed has much more than a passing interest in how faster payments are run in the U.S. This delay was initiated by the Fed.