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Positive pay

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

A technique that can reduce check fraud by requesting businesses to send electronic files of information to the financial institution on all checks the business has issued.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Control0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Positive pays
possessive
Positive pay's
pluralpossessive
Positive pays'