Banks

Say yes to more clients. Manage the risk that comes with growth.

Community banks are built on business relationships. The Affirmative Platform gives your treasury team the data and tools to expand your originator base, right-size limits with confidence, and operate at scale — without adding headcount.

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Nacha Preferred Partner
Affirmative Platform — Banks dashboard

Your treasury team can grow the portfolio — without outgrowing your processes

The Affirmative Platform gives community banks the data to make smarter originator decisions, right-size limits based on actual behavior, and keep compliance running without manual effort. Growth doesn’t have to mean risk. It means knowing which clients can handle more — and acting on that with confidence.

Growth is the goal. These are the friction points.

Limits set at onboarding, never revisited

When limits are based on initial credit data and static judgment, most clients end up underutilizing what they were assigned — while others quietly push toward exposure levels that no longer reflect their actual risk.

Annual reviews that take months to complete

Manual review cycles relying on static questionnaires and lengthy follow-ups can stretch to 10 months — and often reach only a small fraction of the portfolio, leaving real risk blind spots in between.

No view of risk based on actual behavior

Without transaction-based risk scoring, every originator looks roughly the same. High-risk clients blend into the portfolio until a return rate spikes — by which point, the institution is already exposed.

Data scattered across ACH, wire, and RDC systems

When activity lives in separate systems with limited reporting, teams spend hours pulling and reconciling data just to understand what’s happening across a single client. That’s time that should go toward growing the book.

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Know which clients carry risk before it shows up in your returns

Affirmative replaces static credit judgments with behavioral risk scoring based on actual transaction patterns. Your team gets a clear, continuously updated picture of who in your portfolio needs attention — so you can focus effort where it matters and give low-risk clients the faster service they’ve earned.

  • Behavioral risk scoring based on transaction patterns and return activity — not just credit data from onboarding
  • Identify the 1% of originators responsible for 98% of unauthorized ACH activity — up to 60 days ahead
  • Anomaly detection surfaces unusual activity early, before it becomes an examiner’s finding
Low Medium High Score: 72
#DateProcessorOriginatorCompany ID Over DebitOver Credit
110/07/24NorthwestPAYMENT TECH4A8B21NoNo
210/14/24QuickPayAMET PHARETRA9C3F67NoNo
310/21/24TransActVESTIBULUM7E1D94YesNo
410/28/24NorthwestALIQUAM AUCTOR2B5A03NoNo
511/04/24QuickPayFIRST PAYMENTS6D0C88NoNo
611/11/24TransActBRIAN LIBERO3F7B52YesYes
711/18/24NorthwestPAYMENT TECH4A8B21NoNo
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From a 10-month annual cycle to continuous, targeted oversight

When review programs rely on static annual processes, coverage is thin and timing is arbitrary. Affirmative makes reviews dynamic — driven by actual originator behavior, so your team focuses on the clients that genuinely need attention rather than working through a blanket list all year.

  • Risk scoring concentrates review effort on the originators that actually need it — annual reviews become targeted, not blanket
  • Consolidated ACH, wire, and RDC activity per originator gives reviewers everything they need in one view
  • Documentation is captured automatically — no manual assembly before audits or examiner visits
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Right-size limits based on what clients actually do, not just who they were at onboarding

Static limits create two problems at once: excess exposure for clients you’ve over-assigned, and friction for your best clients who need more room to grow. Affirmative tracks actual utilization against assigned limits across your portfolio so you can adjust proactively — and say yes faster when low-risk clients need it.

  • Automated limit recommendations combine each originator’s utilization data with their behavioral risk rating
  • Fast over-limit approvals for low-risk clients — without triggering a full manual review every time
  • Continuously track utilization vs. assigned limits across the full portfolio — not just at point-in-time snapshots
$25K $20K $13K $5K $0 Oct 21 Jul 22 Apr 23 Jan 24 Oct 24 Jan 25 $13K Threshold
ACH Wire RDC Volume overview Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 Total items Previous Trend over time 600 400 200 0 Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 Current period Previous period Summary at a glance Total items reviewed 18,450 8% vs prior period Exception rate 0.68% 0.12 pp vs prior period Complete review
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Stop reconciling data across three systems. Start making decisions from one.

When ACH, wire, and RDC activity live in separate systems, getting a clear picture of any single client means pulling reports from each and stitching them together manually. Affirmative consolidates all of it — so your team can evaluate client risk, utilization, and behavior in a single view, without the manual effort in between.

  • Unified view of ACH, wire, and RDC activity per originator — no manual data reconciliation across systems
  • Centralized dashboards replace spreadsheet-based reporting for daily monitoring and limit decisions
  • Standardized decision-making across departments — everyone works from the same data

The numbers behind smarter treasury risk management

Affirmative helps community banks grow their originator base, reduce manual effort, and operate with the kind of data-driven confidence that keeps examiners satisfied and clients coming back.

30
days to go live via direct FED connection — no core integration required
~90%
reduction in analyst labor when using risk-based review frequencies vs. blanket annual reviews
98%
of unauthorized ACH activity comes from just 1% of originators — Affirmative identifies them up to 60 days ahead
$1T+
in ACH transactions analyzed annually across Affirmative’s network of financial institutions
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Our Payments team was able to move from using raw data to having a system of record with custom reports and dashboards for daily, monthly and 60-day monitoring and board reporting. This saved us time and helped our analysts focus on items of importance.

JM
James Middleton
Avidia Bank

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