Relationship management

Employees of financial institutions must use a Relationship Management Application (RMA) to manage authorisations for sending messages to and receiving messages from correspondents. FTM SWIFT provides an RMA that is used for managing and importing authorisations that are now centrally managed by SWIFT.

The verification of RMA authorisations is called RMA traffic filtering. RMA traffic filtering is implemented by messaging interfaces that exchange messages in the SWIFT network. It can also be employed by other applications, for example, the MER Facility, to prevent the creation of messages that would be rejected by the messaging interface. Business applications can use RMA traffic filtering by calling a stored procedure that is provided with FTM SWIFT.

The user interface for managing authorisations is browser-based. The administration interface for exporting and importing RMA authorisations is based on the FTM SWIFT command-line interface (CLI).

RMA authorizations can be distributed on multiple FTM SWIFT instances. There can be one active master instance defined where the RMA enterprise application is actively running and whenever an authorisation changes, a synchronization request is issued. In addition there can be multiple remote instances defined which will receive the synchronization requests and update their RMA authorisations accordingly. This will keep the authorisations of the participating FTM SWIFT instances in sync and it also allows to switch the active master instance to one of the remote instances to take over if necessary.