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An Automated Clearing House (ACH) Operator is the central clearing facility operated by a private organization or a Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) on behalf of DFIs, to or from which Participating DFIs transmit or receive ACH entries. In some cases, there are two ACH Operators involved in a transaction, one operating as the Originating ACH Operator and the other as the Receiving ACH Operator

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