Positive pay
nounverified· unreviewed·updated Aug 30, 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.
MWEFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary
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'