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Effective February 1, 2024, financial institutions should be prepared to begin receiving DOD payments with the new RTNs. 

Individuals can now open an account, fund it, and send money from the account without ever leaving their premises

The FTC is encouraging innovators to develop solutions that protect consumers.

Is your financial institution interested in joining the FedNow^® Service, but executives still have questions?

Need a quick intro to - or refresher on - online account opening fraud?

Knowledge is power when it comes to tax scams!

The Faster Payments Council has added more resources.

Nacha is looking for rising payments stars!

Your annual FedLine Assurance Program Attestation is due December 31.

Our Fraud Forum and Fraud Reduction Meetings are your secret weapons!

We are delighted to present these webinars with our Vendor Partner Identifee.

Advisory opinion provides guidance on 2010 legal provision regarding customer service by large financial firms.

Tabletop exercise helps small to medium-sized businesses prepare for a cyberattack.

Anne-Marie Leake is ePayResources' longest-serving employee!

Get the REAL truth about preparing for and taking the NCP exam!

What approaches are your peers planning to use for instant payments?

The Global Resilience Federation is offering free registration to ePayResources members.

Are you scrambling to get ready for your 2023 audit?

Deepfakes are a particularly concerning type of synthetic media that uses AI to create highly realistic media.

Scams are the use of deception or manipulation intended to achieve financial gain.

After a significant dip in 2020, the U.S. ATM population grew by about 21,000 terminals from 2021 to the end of 2022.

What is a money mule and how are fraudsters using synthetic identities to replace “traditional” money mules? 

The Association for Financial Professionals has released its Payments Guide to ACH: What Corporates Need to Know.

September is National Preparedness Month.

FedNow^® is live, and we have courses in ePayU to help you get ready!

As Hurricane Idalia approaches Florida, we send our best wishes for the safety of impacted members.

Missed ePayConnect 2023?  Now you can listen in as the Payments Beer Nerds contemplate the death of checks!

Nacha's Risk Management Advisory Group has published guidance for responding to credit-push fraud.

ePayResources celebrates anniversaries and a professional designation!

PayPal has announced the PayPal USD stablecoin will begin rolling out to accountholders.

The FFIEC has released updates to certain sections of the BSA/AML Examination Manual.

The use of Same Day ACH payments grew significantly in the first half of 2023.

A new work effort will help transform the way electronic remittance (e-remittance) information is delivered and processed. 

While the FedNow launch offers a significant industry milestone, the work is far from complete.

Vivian Rini is Manager, Member and Industry Relations with ePayResources.

FinCEN's Interactive SAR Stats webpage now includes Filing Trend Data by industry updated through the 2022 calendar year.

ePayResources is excited to launch its podcast, The Payments Space!

Six years after its launch, the RTP Network has surpassed 500 million real-time payments.

Order online by August 31 to save!

How much do you know about cryptocurrency? If your answer is “not much,” that’s exactly what crypto scammers want to hear.

With so many person-to-person (P2P) and credit push choices, how are consumers to decide what to use?

The Federal Reserve has launched a scams information sharing work group.

We are issuing a call for nominations for the ePayResources Board of Directors.

ePay celebrates promotions!

We're proud to announce the launch of our new mobile app!

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is an international day of observance held every year in June.

Cash App and Venmo are under scrutiny from four U.S. senators over their fraud-protection efforts.

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is an international day of observance held every year in June.

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is an international day of observance held every year on June 15.

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is an international day of observance held every year on June 15.

Stacy Turner is a Manager, Member and Industry Relations with ePay.

Jeff Foote, President, ePayResources, has been additionally named CEO, succeeding Laura Steele, whose retirement was effective May 31, 2023.

NOAA predicts as many as four major hurricanes this season.  Is your institution adequately prepared to maintain business continuity?

ePay celebrates anniversaries and new teammates!

Are we all on the same page as to what faster, instant, real-time, and emerging payments mean?

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is an international day of observance held every year on June 15.

Three ePay member institutions have received reecognition from Q2.

Lily Ramos is an Administrative Coordinator with ePay.

This report examines the use of checks by US consumers, businesses, and government in 2021.

The 2023 Faster Payments Barometer reveals that faster payments adoption is flourishing.

GoDaddy and Microsoft are working to let small businesses accept payments during meetings on Teams.

This month the Federal Reserve started formal certification of participants for launch of the FedNow service.

Andre Slate is ePay’s Manager, Product Inventory.

Your feedback is needed on the ACH Rules!

ePay celebrates a promotion, four anniversaries, and a new teammate!

Headed to Nacha's Smarter Faster Payments 2023 conference in Las Vegas? Come hang out with Team ePay at Booth 433!

ePay’s partnership with ATMIA will strengthen our ability to support our member financial institution.

Where are you on your FedNow Service journey?

Paige Jagel is ePay’s Director, Instructional Design in our Education Department.

One of the most significant drivers of the growth of RTP volume is earned wage access (EWA).

Congrats to everyone who won a prize drawing at ePayConnect 2023!

As of Monday, March 13, 2023, Silicon Valley Bridge Bank’s ACH operations returned to a normal status.

The Nacha Top 50 rankings of financial institution originators and receivers of ACH payments for 2022 are now available. 

What is ChatGPT and what does it mean for payments?

National Slam the Scam Day, March 9, 2023, helps raise awareness and prevent scammers from succeeding in their crimes. 

Nacha will begin enforcing the Nested Third Party Sender rule on March 31, 2023.  Are you ready?

If an application or bank doesn’t cut it, consumers are at liberty to find financial wellness options elsewhere.

According to Nacha, the ACH Network continued growing in the final quarter of 2022.

Effective March 1, 2023, Fiscal Service will no longer accept paper ACH reclamation responses.

TODAY, February 8 is the last chance for nominations for the 2023 Leadership in Payments Award!

As ePay approaches its 50^th anniversary in 2024, we want to focus on celebrating YOU, our members, without whom ePayResources would not exist!

With so many eyes on crypto right now, it’s a great time to get up to speed.

The U.S. Faster Payments Council has debuted its latest industry resource.

Team ePay is celebrating an anniversary and three promotions this month!

Is your organization preparing for the FedNow Service launching this year?

As unique as we each are, we all look the same to identity thieves: like good targets.

If you missed our November 2022 Executive Payments Summit, here are 6 quick takeaways from the event.

FedNow, embedded payments, cybersecurity, BNPL, and more will be dominant themes in the payments industry this year.

Congratulations to the following members of Team ePay on their anniversaries!

Federal bank regulatory agencies have issued a statement highlighting key risks for banking organizations associated with crypto-assets.

Some 12% of U.S. customers have lost money to fraud on a peer-to-peer payment network, while 11% have seen it happen to a family member.

Between inflation, market swings, crypto issues, and more, the U.S. has weathered an uncertain economic situation in 2022.

In this festive time of many celebrations, everyone at ePay sends their best wishes to our members, clients, and partners!

The holiday season is a time for cheerful giving, but make a donation plan that includes spotting and avoiding scams. 

We recently received a question from a member that comes up often, particularly during the end-of-year audit season.

Keep your hard-earned money safe from scammers this holiday season by spotting and avoiding gift card scams.

Progress towards ubiquitous faster payments on a global scale is gaining momentum due to ISO 20022 migration.

Congratulations to the following members of Team ePay on their anniversaries!

Two Federal Reserve Financial Services reports can provide your organization with powerful strategic payments insights.

The Federal Reserve Board has announced pricing, effective January 3, 2023, for payments services including FedNow. 

More than 80% of tenants pay their rent by old-fashioned paper checks.

Plan and budget for your 2023 payments education now!

ePay CEO Laura Steele helped raise money for breast cancer research when ePay sponsored the Play for P.I.N.K. golf tournament.  

A majority of AFP survey respondents (54%) report that speed is the primary driver when choosing a payment method.

Do you have payments knowledge you want to share? Submit a session proposal for ePayConnect 2023!

Congratulations to the following recipients of the scholarships to ePay’s Payments University!