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Course description

ACH volume increased by 5.6% in 2015. With that growth in volume comes an increase in unauthorized transactions, making accurate and timely management of unauthorized transaction claims more and more important for your bank and its bottom line.

For many of those claims – those made by consumers – Regulation E prescribes a claims investigation and management process with specific timing, notification and resolution requirements, along with the potential for provisional credit to the consumer while your investigation proceeds. There are also precise requirements on allocation of liability to the consumer for unauthorized EFT claims involving a series of transactions over multiple months. Those Regulation E rules co-exist with NACHA rules that can seem to conflict with Regulation E.

Sorting out which rules apply to specific scenarios so that your bank handles claims with procedures that are both timely and compliant can be more than a challenge – and mistakes in policy, procedures or practice in handling claims of unauthorized transactions can result in poor customer service and increase the risk of regulatory criticism, adverse public relations and losses through litigation. This webinar analyzes NACHA rules and Regulation E to give your bank the information needed to develop compliant procedures to mitigate those risks and minimize losses to your bank.

During the presentation, we'll carefully review -

  • NACHA’s return restrictions, by transaction and customer type
  • Authorization requirements under Regulation E and NACHA Rules
  • What you can require a consumer to provide with a claim that an ACH entry was unauthorized
  • How to process oral claims
  • The Regulation E error resolution process
  • Timing requirements for a customer’s claim under Regulation E and under NACHA rules
  • Using the right ACH return reason code
  • The WSUD and when it’s required
  • How Regulation E’s lack of an unauthorized EFT “statute of limitations” affects claims handling
  • When it’s too late for a return -- Claims under NACHA’s ongoing authorization warranty
  • The impact of unauthorized ACH entries on the ODFI
  • and more …



This webinar addresses only unauthorized ACH entries. Debit card transactions are not discussed.

Instructor(s)

John Burnett

John Burnett is a 1979 alumnus of the ABA National Compliance School, and served on its faculty for several years. He graduated with honors with the Class of 1990 from ABA's Stonier Graduate School of Banking, and is also a graduate of the BAIs and the Massachusetts Banker Associations Schools of Banking.John began his banking career in high school when he started as a teller at a $15 million bank that didn't have account numbers for its checking accounts (he says they actually filed by signature!) He joined Cape Cod Bank and Trust Company in 1971 and assumed the position of Compliance Officer in 1976. He also served as corporate secretary and secretary of CCBT's Board of Directors, as well as Clerk of the bank's holding company. John joined Glia Group, Inc. and the BankersOnline.com team in June, 2004. He is a frequent presenter of BOL Learning Connect webinars, and at BOL Conferences events.He was a member of the Massachusetts Bankers Association Legal and Regulatory Compliance Committee, and a former member of the American Bankers Association Compliance Executive Committee and NCS/NGCS Advisory Board. He served on ABA's Truth in Savings Task Force as Regulation DD was being written, and has served on several ABA and Massachusetts Bankers seminar panels.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Video

    • Managing Unauthorized ACH Items
  • 2

    Materials

    • Materials

    • Slides

    • Questions and Answers