• Intermediary Bank

    • FC-3.1.14

      For cross-border wire transfers, banks processing an intermediary element of such chains of wire transfers must ensure that all originator and beneficiary information that accompanies a wire transfer is retained with it.

      Added: October 2014

    • FC-3.1.15

      Where technical limitations prevent the required originator or beneficiary information accompanying a cross-border wire transfer from remaining with a related domestic wire transfer, a record must be kept, for at least five years, by the receiving intermediary bank of all the information received from the originating bank or another intermediary bank.

      Added: October 2014

    • FC-3.1.16

      An intermediary bank must take reasonable measures to identify cross-border wire transfers that lack required originator information or required beneficiary information. Such measures must be consistent with straight-through processing.

      Added: October 2014

    • FC-3.1.17

      An intermediary bank must have effective risk-based policies and procedures for determining:

      (a) When to execute, reject, or suspend a wire transfer lacking required originator or required beneficiary information; and
      (b) The appropriate follow-up action.
      Added: October 2014