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Financial Transaction Manager

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Add MFA to all FTM check application processes.

MFA should be an option to be enabled for UI access, server and db access and any application process that enables login.
11 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration

Trace logging for Zelle Ready Contacts API (ZPSS) interaction

Why? Because we need logs in order to triage issues for Zelle Ready Contacts/EWS interactions.
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Zelle 1 Not under consideration

The query criteria “Store Time” in MER Message List Filter confuses customer and end-user.

System: Message Entry and Repair Facility Actor: End-user Employees of financial institutions can use the Message Entry and Repair (MER) Facility to manually process financial messages. End-user is always using filter function in MER list page to ...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Automatic activation of accounting for the SIPN FIN and FMT FIN services.

The manual procedure described in "System Administration Guide" for "Collecting accounting data for the SIPN FIN and FMT FIN services" is prone to be forgotten or overseen and should be better replaced by an automatic procedure like that applying ...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Improved retry handling for FA transfers based on status information

The request is needed since the retry for files in Accepted status is no more needed given that SWIFT retries for 4 hours, if after 4 hours a file is not sent, it means that a huge technical problem is likely affecting the receiver, in this case w...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Request to manage the life-cycle state of FTM SWIFT security entities from additional users

The FTM SWIFT security entities (roles, role groups, and users) go through a configuration process during which the entity is in different states.After rejecting changes to a specified entity, the life-cycle state is moved from "Committed" to "In ...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

MER enhancement for user routing of messages

Not all incoming SWIFTNet messages can be processed straight-through. In some cases references are missing or the message's content requires manual review. These messages will be routed to MER queues on which users can view, delete or print the me...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Not under consideration

synchronizing the TASK_CALENDAR with the IYB_TIMER table didn’t work with the change to liberty

What we were trying to do with the V3 code for synchronizing the TASK_CALENDAR with the IYB_TIMER table didn’t work with the change to liberty. It appears that the V4 product uses Enterprise Java Beans (EJB’s) timers now. So to synchronize the TAS...
12 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Planned for future release

FTM MER Data Entry and Authorization Control

User Profile 1. TCCDE - Data Entry2. TCCAU1 - Authorizer 13. TCCAU2 - Authorizer 2 Scenario 11.TCCDE - Creates the message.2.TCCAU1 - Authorize the message.3.TCCAU2 - Rejects the message. If TCCAU2 User rejects the message, the message goes back t...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

remove the dependency on the self-signed certificates in FTM V4

Self signed certificates are not allowed per bank standard security restictions.
12 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review