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Financial Transaction Manager

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Automatically scale gateway threads

FTM for Digital Payments should be able to automatically scale Gateway threads to achieve optimal performance based on load.
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Extending mapper support to GPA messages

FTM Base doesn't support GPA messages. When we receive GPA MT081 messages they have status Transmission Mapping failed.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

During Credit Transfer Segment threshold check when using CT API, a negative acknowledgement (pacs002) should be generated and sent to the sender.

During Credit Transfer Segment threshold check when using MQ channel, a negative acknowledgement (pacs002) is generated and sent tothe sender. When we use CT API in the same flow, a negative acknowledgement (pacs002) is not generated.
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

CPA005 Transaction Rejected in FTM Base but Accepted by Gateway in PFS layer (Refer WorkItem Work Item 114946)

During AFT application development, we found that FTM Base rejected transactions where getting accepted by Gateway in PFS i.e. FTM Base Rejections are not considered by Gateway for updating a payment's status. We raised a RTC defect 114946 for thi...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Not under consideration

Seamless transparent deposits and voucher conversation l

Convenience: Enables access to funds without visiting a bank, potentially saving time and effort. Eliminates the need to carry large amounts of cash, reducing security risks. Accessibility: Allows cash deposits for those who prefer cash over digit...
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

Extracting and Presenting values from ISO20022 msgs in FTM MER screens

Idea details Extracting and Presenting values from ISO20022 msgs in FTM MER screens We are suggesting that the value from certain fields in ISO20022 messages pacs.002 and pacs.008 are extracted and presented in MER screens. Purpose is to in...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Future consideration

Message WareHouse Power Search of SWIFT Messages (MT and MX)

Currently COGNOS is used to query MT and MX messages. For MT there is a free text search, but the same is not made available for MX messages. In addition, general query performance is slow. Note that I have look at other SWIFT products, and they a...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

FTM needs the ability to prioritize Distribution messages in order of the Processing Window the batches are assigned to

If a large number of files come into the system just before and just after the cutoff time for a processing window, depending on the makeup of the files, some files after the cutoff that will be assigned to the next window can be sent to distribut...
10 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

pacs and camt message <AppHdr>

Currently the Business Application Header or the <AppHdr> elements for ISO 20022 pacs and camt messages are not displayed in both Formatted and Unformatted screen in FTM MER. This <AppHdr> contains information that is useful for SWIFT ...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

T2 domain in MER Facility for manual entry of T2 MSGs

MER Facility manual data entry for T2 MSGs would be much easier if there was a T2 domain like there is for CBPR+ or remit solutions , Proxy voting MX MSGs This would help data entry users to verify the fields and the whole MSGs according to ECB ru...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration