National Automated Clearing House – Banks are requested to adhere to the laid down rules

          NPCI through circular dt July 19, 2017 has strictly advised all member banks participating in NACH Mandate Management System to adhere to laid down procedures while processing mandates.

          Mandate Management System is in operation from 2013 and over the years, 2.71 crores mandates have been added to the MMS repository.

          It was brought to the notice of NPCI that some of the member banks had started formulating their own rules for acceptance of mandates. Such non-standardised processes by banks have led to confusion in the participants of NACH eco-system.  

          Hence, NPCI to restore order in the NACH eco-system has advised Banks to strictly follow the laid-down procedures while processing the mandates.

          However NPCI is open to suggestions and has advised member banks to put forth any process improvement points to the Steering committee. The process improvements points will be deliberated at the Steering committee and further action will be planned.

          Yes, non-members too can put their points to the Steering Committee. This is a welcome step by NPCI

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Mandate Management System (MMS) is an essential part of National Automated Clearing House (NACH) service. The Mandates are necessary from the regulatory National Automated Clearing House perspective in order to process NACH transactions.

As a step towards streamlining the process and making it more customer and participant -friendly, it is proposed to implement the MMS, where mandate information is captured on a standard cheque like mandate form.

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