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Positive pay

nounid 3631·updated May 12, 2026
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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

Sensitivity

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

Information Class

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

Variants

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

Framework definitions

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
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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.

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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