Ben Gran is a freelance contributor for Forbes Advisor on banking. He also writes for The Ascent (a Motley Fool service), where he covers insurance, credit cards, personal finance and investing.

While all this may seem like one of the marvels of modern technology, you're actually using a decades-old system known as ACH payments. There are other means of moving money, like wire transfers ...

Businesses that pay lots of vendors often have a payment system set up to facilitate ACH payments, so all you have to do is give them your bank information. If you’re a one-to-one service ...

The Automated Clearing House (ACH) network is an electronic system that facilitates financial transactions between banks and credit unions in the U.S. Instead of relying on paper checks or manual ...

In a Reddit post that quickly gained thousands of upvotes, one user asked a question many Americans have probably wondered ...

Unlike PayPal or Venmo, which rely on the ACH network, a Zelle money transfer between banks that are both in the network uses ...