Overview

The IBM® Financial Transaction Manager for UK Payments Integration feature helps accelerate the creation of an integrated solution, based on FTM, that processes payments for the following UK payment schemes:
  • Bankers' Automated Clearing Services (BACS)
  • Clearing House Automated Payment System (CHAPS)
  • UK Faster Payments Service (FPS)
FTM for UK Payments Integration provides the capability to receive and send payments in the formats used by the different payment schemes. Input and output mappers, implemented using IBM Transformation Extender, are provided for each of the payment schemes. The mappers:
  • encapsulate the details of the message formats defined by the payment schemes
  • transform the payment scheme message formats to and from the FTM internal standard format (ISF)

The figure below illustrates where the FTM for UK Payments Integration feature is positioned within an overall Financial Transaction Manager solution.

Figure 1. FTM for UK Payments Integration in Financial Transaction Manager
Diagram of how FTM for UK Payments Integration fits into an installation of FTM

For more information about how to install the FTM for UK Payments Integration feature, see FTM for UK Payments Integration Installation.

For more information about the mapping performed between the FTM canonical format (ISF) and the message types for each of the payment schemes, refer to:
  • Bankers' Automated Clearing Services (BACS) mappers
  • Clearing House Automated Payment System (CHAPS) mappers
  • Faster Payments Service (FPS) mappers