Verify Account℠

Validate external account status and ownership

Verify Account℠ validates account-holder identity elements to help reduce transaction fraud.

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Risk insight to help detect and prevent transaction fraud

Verify Account℠ helps mitigate fraud by delivering real-time account validation at the point of payment. It confirms whether an external account is open and valid, and whether consumer-provided information matches authorized users – supporting confident outgoing payment decisions.

What Verify Account℠ helps you do

Corporate and government entities, along with the treasury resellers that serve them, can reduce transactional fraud and facilitate account validation in real-time with Verify Account.

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Validate outbound payments and disbursements

Validate outbound payments and disbursements in real time by confirming external account ownership and status, helping prevent misdirected or fraudulent payments, reduce potential fraud losses, and identify high-risk transactions before funds are sent.

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Set up payment source and destination accounts

Enables real-time validation and enrollment of payment source and destination accounts, reducing fraud and misdirected payments while supporting a seamless, low-friction customer experience.

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Validate account ownership

Helps validate account ownership and authorization to ensure wire and ACH payments are credited to the intended individual, helping reduce losses tied to unauthorized check and ACH transactions.

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Stay compliant

Supports Nacha WEB Debit Account Validation through real-time account verification to help detect and mitigate fraud. Verify Account℠ can be configured in alignment with your compliance and risk requirements.

Experience the Verify Account℠ benefits

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Help reduce potential fraud loss

Real-time account validation helps detect fraud early by confirming external account status and authorized users before payments are initiated.

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Comply with Nacha

Supports Nacha WEB Debit Account Validation by helping meet commercially reasonable account validation requirements.

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Improve your customer experience

An inquiry-based, real-time solution that reduces friction and enables faster, more confident transactions.

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Increase revenue potential

Helps expand payment capabilities and customer relationships by enabling growth with greater confidence and lower risk.

Verify Account℠ in action

Validate external account ownership and status in real time.

How it works

Verify Account℠ works by validating account status and ownership using bank-contributed data. It helps institutions assess transaction risk and confidently initiate or approve payments.
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Transaction is initiated

A consumer initiates a transaction and submits external account information through your payment processing system.

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Risk is assessed

The financial institution submits a real-time inquiry to the Certos℠ network to validate account status and ownership.

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Insights arrive in real time

Certos℠ responds with current account status, ownership match results, and an overall match indicator.

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An informed decision is made

The institution uses the response to approve, decline or apply additional controls with confidence.

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Capabilities to help validate account status and ownership

Enhanced Verify Account℠ tools

Verify Account℠ combines real-time account status verification and ownership matching into a single solution. By validating whether an account is open, valid, and authorized, it helps institutions reduce transaction fraud and make confident payment decisions.

The Certos℠ advantage

The Certos℠  network brings together decades of shared intelligence and advanced analytics to provide a comprehensive portfolio of identity, account, and payment risk solutions, offering deeper insights than any institution can achieve alone.

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Trust at scale

We unite financial institutions through decades of unmatched data, creating a trusted network that grows stronger with every connection.

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Innovative solutions

With advanced analytics and detection technology informed by activity from contributing institutions, we provide innovative solutions that provide deeper insights than any single institution can achieve alone, turning network-shared intelligence into shared assurance.

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Real-time intelligence

Our solutions distill complex data into clear, timely insights. As new data enters the network and threats evolve, we continually advance and refine our solutions, strengthening protection and confidence.

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