File Imports

Access CSV File Imports for Payments & Templates

For the Access CSV file format, you will see updated field labels in the Routing/Reference Information section. These changes apply to all parties where address information may be entered, including Beneficiary, Beneficiary Bank, Intermediary Bank, and By Order Of.

Currently, your addresses are captured in an unstructured format.

To comply with hybrid address standards, reformat your address details according to the updated labels.  

User recommendations

  1. If an address is provided, City/Town and Country must be entered in their dedicated fields.
  2. Enter State/Province, Zip/Postal Code in its dedicated field, where applicable.
  3. Append any details previously kept in Address 2 to the end of Address, which will allow up to 70 characters.

FTI GMT File Imports for Payments

For those using FTI GMT format to initiate payments from non-U.S. markets, you will also see the label updates across all parties. These changes apply to all parties where address information may be entered, including Beneficiary, Beneficiary Bank, Intermediary Bank, and By Order Of.

Currently, your addresses are captured in an unstructured format.

To comply with hybrid address standards, reformat your address details according to the updated labels.  

User recommendations

  1. If an address is provided, City/Town and Country must be entered in their dedicated fields. 
  2. Enter State/Province, Zip/Postal Code in its dedicated field, where applicable. 
  3. Append any details previously kept in Address 2 to the end of Address, which will allow up to 70 characters. 

FTI DMT format

For those using FTI DMT format to initiate payments from U.S. markets, you will also see the label updates across all parties.

Currently, your addresses are captured in an unstructured format.

To comply with hybrid address standards, reformat your address details according to the updated labels.  

  1. If an address is provided, City/Town and Country must be entered in their dedicated fields. 
  2. Enter State/Province, Zip/Postal Code in its dedicated field, where applicable. 
  3. Append any details previously kept in Address 2 to the end of Address, which will allow up to 70 characters. 
  4. If an address is entered, both City/Town & Country must also be included. However, the FTI DMT file format does not support By Order ‘Country’ field. To use By Order party, convert to Access CSV format which supports all required fields. 

For those using FTI DMT format to initiate Drawdowns:

User recommendations

  1. If an address is entered, both City/Town & Country must also be included. However, since this file format does not support Debit Account ‘Country’ field or Debit Bank ‘Country’ field, convert to Access CSV format to capture all the required fields.

Global ACH

For SEPA Credit Transfer ISO pain.001 v3/v9 files, any address information provided will require a minimum of town name/city <TwnNm> and country <Ctry> (Table 1). 

For Swiss Credit Transfers ISO pain.001 v3/v9 (ch.02/ch.03) file formats, the creditor address information is mandatory and will require a minimum of town name/city and country (Table 1). 

Table 1 – SEPA/Swiss Credit Transfers: ISO Element Names for Structured/Hybrid Addresses

Element descriptionISO20022 tagOccurrences Data type Notes 
Creditor<Cdtr> [1..1]   
Name<Nm>[1..1]Text {1,140} 
Postal Address<PsltAdr>[0..1]  
Department<Dept>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Sub Department<SubDept>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Street Name<StrtNm>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Building Number<BldgNb>[0..1]Text {1,16}  
Building Name<BldgNm>[0..1]Text {1,35} 
Floor<Flr>[0..1]Text {1,70}  
Post Box<PstBx>[0..1]Text {1,16} 
Room<Room>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Post Code<PstCd>[0..1]Text {1,16} 
Town Name<TwnNm>[0..1]Text {1,35}Occurrence is [1..1] where postal address is provided 
Town Location Name<TwnLctnNm>[0..1]Text {1,35} 
District Name<DstrctNm>[0..1]Text {1,35} 
Country Sub-division<CtrySubDvsn>[0..1]Text {1,35} 
Country<Ctry>[0..1]Text [A-Z]{2,2}Occurrence is [1..1] where postal address is provided
Address Line<AdrLine>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Address Line<AdrLine>[0..1]Text {1,70} 

For SEPA Direct Debits ISO pain.008 v2/v8 files, any address information provided will require a minimum of town name/city <TwnNm> and country <Ctry> if the debtor account is in a country outside the EEA. SEPA Direct Debit transactions inside the EEA do not require any address information although we recommend that it is provided (Table 2).

Table 2 – SEPA Direct Debits – ISO Element Names for Structured/Hybrid Addresses

Element descriptionISO20022 tagOccurrencesData typeNotes
Debtor<Dbtr>[1..1]  
Name<Nm>[1..1]Text {1,140} 
Postal Address<PsltAdr>[0..1]  
Department<Dept>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Sub Department<SubDept>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Street Name<StrtNm>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Building Number<BldgNb>[0..1]Text {1,16} 
Building Name<BldgNm>[0..1]Text {1,35} 
Floor<Flr>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Post Box<PstBx>[0..1]Text {1,16} 
Room<Room>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Post Code<PstCd>[0..1]Text {1,16} 
Town Name<TwnNm>[0..1]Text {1,35}Occurrence is [1..1] where postal address is mandated or provided
Town Location Name<TwnLctnNm>[0..1]Text {1,35} 
District Name<DstrctNm>[0..1]Text {1,35} 
Country Sub-division<CtrySubDvsn>[0..1]Text {1,35} 
Country<Ctry>[0..1]Text [A-Z]{2,2}Occurrence is [1..1] where postal address is mandated or provided
Address Line<AdrLine>[0..1]Text {1,70} 
Address Line<AdrLine>[0..1]Text {1,70} 

For Swiss Credit Transfers Global Delimited File Format (GDFF), the creditor address will require town name/city and country.

For Swiss Credit Transfers Global Delimited File Format (GDFF), the creditor address will require town name/city and country.