{"id":450864,"date":"2017-12-29T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/29\/use-automated-clearing-house-in-2018-ghipss-urges-companies\/"},"modified":"2017-12-29T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T17:33:06","slug":"use-automated-clearing-house-in-2018-ghipss-urges-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/29\/use-automated-clearing-house-in-2018-ghipss-urges-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Automated Clearing House in 2018 &#8211; GhIPSS urges companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Friday, 29 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citibusinessnews.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-29<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/49066898.295.jpg\" alt=\"Archie Hesse   GhIPSS Boss\" title=\"Archie Hesse   GhIPSS Boss\" width=\"295\" height=\"216\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Archie Hesse, CEO of Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1514568786_454_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) is urging companies and organisations to minimize the use of cheques and use more of the Automated Clearing House (ACH) for payments in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to GhIPSS, the move is to drive patronage for ACH which was in line with the global trend towards the use of technology to achieve efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Chief Executive GhIPSS, Mr Archie Hesse, said the use of cheques by organisations had been a long-held tradition because they were perceived as a more formal way of making payments.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that the use of cheques, especially for bulk payments, was cumbersome and inefficient, cost more, and consumed a lot of time that could be profitably used for core activities of the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of cheques also exposes firms to cloning and sometimes difficulty in tracking cheques that have been issued, but ACH is electronic, quicker, safer and easier to trace,\u201d it stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The ACH comes in two main forms \u2013 Direct Credit and Direct Debit and an ACH transaction takes about 24 hours or a couple of hours in the case of express service.<\/p>\n<p>The statement explained that unlike cheques, which must be individually issued to each recipient, ACH payments could be batched in large volumes and sent electronically at once to several recipients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cACH patronage has been rising steadily since its introduction recording over 3.3 million transactions in the first half of 2017, representing close to 48 percent of clearing house transactions, \u2018\u2019 it said.<\/p>\n<p>However a lot of the ACH transactions are of lower values, accounting for less than 20 percent of clearing house transactions in value terms,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>It said the clearing house transactions comprised cheques and ACH and GhIPSS was hoping that its campaign, which had resulted in increased patronage for ACH, would be intensified to see a significant rise in the 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2017-12-29 Archie Hesse, CEO of Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems The Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) is urging companies and organisations to minimize the use of cheques and use more of the Automated Clearing House (ACH) for payments in 2018. 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