Stronghold Joins Nacha’s Payments Innovation Alliance

ACH’s Governing Organization Adds Virtual Payments Network Creator to Group Shaping the Industry's Future

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stronghold, a financial technology infrastructure company, announced today it has joined Nacha’s Payments Innovation Alliance. This influential group of payments industry participants supports advancements across the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network and throughout the payments system within the U.S. and worldwide. The Alliance is a membership group that is part of Nacha, the ACH Network’s governing organization, that drives and guides innovation through discussion, education, project teams, resource development, and other initiatives.

Stronghold’s mission to provide fast, secure, and accessible financial services for all, also aligns with the Alliance’s focus on removing barriers as the industry evolves. Stronghold’s virtual payment network ecosystem, StrongholdNET, enables interoperability between existing and emerging payments technology.

“Increasing access to the ACH Network has been a significant factor in Stronghold’s early growth and success,” said Tammy Camp, CEO and co-founder of Stronghold. “We welcome the opportunity to work with a diverse range of payments stakeholders towards our vision of building a more inclusive, stable, and connected global economy.”

According to the Federal Reserve’s 2019 Payments Study, from 2015 to 2018 the number of ACH payments grew by 6 percent and the value of these payments grew by 7.2 percent, making ACH one of the fastest growing payment rails in the United States (source). According to Nacha, in 2020, nearly 27 billion ACH Network payments were made, valued at close to $62 trillion (source). In the third quarter of 2021, the ACH Network processed 7.3 billion payments (amounting to 520 million more than the same time in 2020). The value of those payments was $18.1 trillion, an increase of 13.8% from a year earlier. B2B payments have also increased 18.7%, to 1.4 billion payments.

Read more about Stronghold here:
https://stronghold.co/

Read more about Nacha’s Payments Innovations Alliance here:
https://www.nacha.org/payments-innovation-alliance