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Financial Transaction Manager

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Provide an FTM MER configuration to approve or deny a received message that fails RMA . Request to add a requirement to create such an extension to queues of purpose CONFIRM (to allow approve/deny RMA).

To enable received messages that fail RMA to be processed in a MER queue defined as confim, ValidateRM and the actions approve/deny RMA.
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

No Audit Trail available for state/column change for a Payment/Item in FTM for CPS PFS layer

As per our analysis, we could find audit trail for transmission and batches. But there is no Audit trail for a payment/item. For example when does a payment's state change from Received to Accepted, From Accepted to Cancelled, from not-posted to p...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

Multiple User sessions to FTM MER, AO and RMA facilities

Multiple User sessions to FTM MER, AO, and RMA facilities As of now, all users are allowed to log in to multiple sessions at multiple workstations at once. This should not be allowed, instead, the previous session should be kicked out whenever the...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 4 Not under consideration

FTM-MER should be able to handle this double slash (//) checking

FTM-MER should be able to handle this double slash (//) checking In existing Merva users are required to key in a double slash '//' at the beginning of each account number. In FTM this is not required anymore but since the users are used to keying...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Change the 'date' column in the MER Facility Message List to "Value Date"

Change the 'date' column in the MER Facility Message List to "Value Date"; only the header line text to change from "Date" to "Value date". Reference: Case# TS004981314
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Automate Service Framework Task creation. Ability to export and import Service Framework Tasks definitions

Is it possible to export service framework configurations from one environment such as Dev and import those same configurations into a new environment such as SIT? The task of doing this manually from env to env is tedious and time consuming as we...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

FTM CPS : UI should not allow Manual Return of Transaction with all available Return Reason Codes irrespective of its Record Type (PMR# TS004455925)

Whenever we try to manually return a transaction from UI it allows us to return the transaction with all the available reason codes irrespective of the record type(Credit/ Debit). According CPA Rules, UI should allow Debit and Credit records to be...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

FTM CPS : Manual Returns from UI : Should be validating CPA rules for time limits for Returns. (Ref PMR TS004363369)

CPA Rule for Returning an AFT Transaction requires below date-time range validation. -> for credit transaction, the difference should not be more than 90 days. -> for personal debit transaction, the difference should not be more than 90 days...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

As part of AFT application, we found issues with Automatic Distribution of Outound Transmissions by the distribution scheduler. We raised PMR# TS004448402 for the same. As per the PMR updates, the product is working as designed and required by ACH. But we see there is some scope of improvement here as mentioned in details in the PMR.

On doing test-cases surrounding "Automated Distribution" issue, we found that if a processing batch is "Not Ready For Distribution" and all the transactions inside that batch are either in Held or Rejected status, then Distribution Scheduler works...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to send RFI (FI to FI) via DPUI for Originated(outgoing) Credit Transfer

Initiate RFI (FI) on outgoing CT – The functionality is listed as non-mandatory on the TCH 2.9 certification list. It was not implemented in any FTM 3.2 releases Ops tried to initiate a FI to FI RFI on an originated transaction and was not able to...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Planned for future release