ASC X9, Inc. Email Format
Financial ServicesMaryland, United States11-50 Employees
ASC X9, Inc. is a nonprofit industry association focused on developing and maintaining technical standards for the financial services sector. It builds, preserves, and promotes voluntary, consensus-based standards intended to streamline the delivery of financial services and products. Based in Annapolis, Maryland, the organization has more than three decades of standards leadership and counts over 200 organizational members spanning banks, vendors, government agencies, security experts, software providers, and consultants. It serves as a central repository for standards that affect the financial services industry and concentrates on addressing current and future needs in the field. Its activities emphasize sustaining existing standards, enabling the development of new open standards through consensus, and promoting broad use of these standards, including engagement with international standardization efforts. In 2026, ASC X9 participated in a collaborative initiative with the U.S. Faster Payments Council to establish a Joint Standards Steering Committee aimed at advancing faster payments standards initiatives.