Payment System and Funds Transfer Activities: Comptroller's Handbook

Financial institutions and their customers are recognizing a growing need tomanage cash resources more efficiently. Economic and financial factors,together with improved data communications and computer technology, haveincreased demand for electronic funds transfer (EFT) services from the financialindustry. EFT is defined as: any transfer of funds which is initiated through anelectronic terminal, telephonic instrument, computer, or magnetic tape so as toorder, instruct, or authorize a financial institution to debit or credit an account.