ePaynews.com
A free news portal and research tool that focuses on retail payment and transaction reconciliation solutions to give payment professionals a dynamic information resource for their industry. The site is updated daily with fresh content from the Web and trade sources to give an informative overview of payments trends in the retail, unattended payments and cash management fields. The site also offers industry white papers, Power Points, a comprehensive 'links resource', and the ePaynews.com weekly newsletter, that summarizes the top stories of the week.

About NACHA 
The Electronic Payments Association NACHA is the leading organization in developing electronic solutions to improve the payments system. NACHA represents more than 11,000 financial institutions through direct memberships and a network of regional payments associations, and 650 organizations through its industry councils. NACHA develops operating rules and business practices for the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network and for electronic payments in the areas of Internet commerce, electronic bill and invoice presentment and payment (EBPP, EIPP), e-checks, financial electronic data interchange  (EDI), international payments, and electronic benefits transfer (EBT).

NACHA News Release: May is the Month to Move Consumers to Electronic Payments

Electronic Payments Organization (PDF)

The information on this web site is designed to educate individuals, business professionals, and employees of financial institutions about electronic payments processed through ACH network, including Direct Deposit, Direct Payment, and check conversion applications.  The information for individuals is focused on education, while business visitors are provided with materials to help promote these applications and educate their employees and customers about their benefits.  For financial institutions, this site offers information and resources to help encourage the use of ACH-based electronic payment applications by individual and business customers, as well as training materials for staff members.

Check 21 Act Resource Document (PDF)
The Check Clearing for the 21^st Century Act (Check 21 Act) facilitates significant change in the way checks are processed in the United States. All banks will be affected by this law even if they do nothing to change their current check processing operations. All customers (consumers and businesses) are affected by the Check 21 Act in that they have the potential to receive a substitute checks. 

The 2005-2006 Study of Consumer Payment Preferences (PDF)
The study is a definitive guide to how consumers pay in different venues, why, and how their payment habits are likely to evolve going forward across five important payment venues: Internet payments, bill payments, cash, debit cards and prepaid cards.  The study also found that each month consumers make 58 individual payment choices, whether they are making a purchase in a store, over the Internet, or paying a bill - and, increasingly, the payment method they choose is an electronic one.