Indicates the open, closed, or overdrawn status of the presented external account.
Data Provided: A status code summary
Verify Account℠
Verify Account℠ validates account-holder identity elements to help reduce 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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
Validate external account ownership and status in real time.
A consumer initiates a transaction and submits external account information through your payment processing system.

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

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

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

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.

Indicates the open, closed, or overdrawn status of the presented external account.
Data Provided: A status code summary

Validates that an individual being inquired upon owns, or is authorized to transact on, an account.
Data Provided: A Yes/No response and match score

Provides unparalleled visibility into the return risk associated with check and ACH transactions, as well as the historical status of transactions drawn from the presented external account.
Data Provided: A proprietary risk score
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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