How to Join
the IFX Forum
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| If your organization would like to become a member of the IFX Forum,
send an email message to membership@ifxforum.org.
You will receive a set of materials in response: the Forum Bylaws and
Membership Rules for your reference (also available from links at the
top of this page), the Membership Application, and a Membership Letter
customized to your organization. You should fill out and sign the
Application and Letter, and return to the address noted. You will then
receive an invoice at the appropriate dues level, and all privileges
will begin as soon as dues payment is received.
Information about membership is available here.
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New!
Download Our Membership Benefits Presentation
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| To help organizations understand the benefits of participating as a member of the IFX Forum,
we have created a brief PowerPoint presentation. You can download it from the link on our home page, at http://www.ifxforum.org.
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"Introduction to IFX 2.X" Audio
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You can now download your own copy of the "Introduction to IFX 2.X" session to watch and
listen to at your convenience, at no charge.
This material is distilled from the presentation delivered at the
Forum's 2010 Annual Meeting by Richard Urban.
There are four PowerPoint presentations with sound, each
lasting 20-30 minutes:
IFX Governance
IFX Framework and Services Model
IFX Objects and Data
IFX Messaging
Instructions for
downloading and accessing the narratives are posted on our website, together with the files.
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Welcome to the IFX Forum Newsletter!
This newsletter brings you news and updates about the
IFX specification and the activities of the IFX Forum approximately four times
a year. Past issues of
the newsletter are also on our website.
If you have a story you would like to
share, a question about an article or a topic you would like to see covered,
please write to info@ifxforum.org.
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IFX Forum Face-to-Face Meeting,
October 4-7, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |  You're invited to join us at the October 2010 Face-to-Face
Meeting of the IFX Forum , which will take place October 4-7 in Milford, Ohio
(near Cincinnati), USA, generously hosted by TCS. Representatives of our member companies will
convene to work on and discuss the future direction of the IFX specification.
We encourage anyone who is interested in the
progress of standards for financial
data exchange to join us and help plan the next wave of enhancements and
extensions to IFX, following IFX 2.1.
The four active Working Groups -- ATM/POS, Branch Banking
Services, Business Banking and Card Management & Servicing -- will have
hands-on working sessions, followed by Architecture Committee discussions for
all attendees. These quarterly meetings
are an important platform for the Working Groups' efforts, in addition to the
teleconferences that move their work along in between events. The Steering Committee will also meet to
cover business topics, and there will be a brief Members' Meeting as well.
Non-members, as always, are cordially invited to attend the
meeting to "test drive" Forum activities before joining, for a fee of
$695 per person, which can be applied toward the first year's dues. Or, non-members can join the Forum in advance
of the meeting and send any number of representatives at no charge. IFX Forum members may send as many attendees
as they like at no charge. For more
information, email info@ifxforum.org.
Registration, agenda and location details are available here.
Recommended Hotel
The recommended hotel is the Homewood
Suites, Milford, Ohio, 600 Chamber Drive, Milford, Ohio, USA 45150. Mention that you are visiting TCS/Tata
Consultancy Services and that you qualify for their $99 corporate rate. As this is a busy time of year, the hotel may
fill up. In that case, please visit our
website for alternative suggestions.
Phone: +1 513-248-4663
Ask for: Tata Consultancy Services rate
The hotel room rate includes breakfast and a "happy
hour" at the end of the business day. It is about three miles from the meeting
facility, which is at 1000 Summit Drive in Milford.
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IFX
Version 2.1 Ready for Release
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We're pleased to announce that the final Release Candidate
for Version 2.1 of the IFX specification is now available at http://bms.ifxforum.org/.There is no charge to access IFX, but you
must register at the site. The Forum
expects to make the release official at the October meeting.
The Forum's focus over the past year has been incorporating
the significant amount of feedback received since our initial release of IFX
Version 2 in November 2008, enriching the specification with new messages as
well as enhancing existing content. Key
updates include: - Support of the latest ISO 20022 Payment Initiation
messages and improved mapping of IFX data to ISO 20022
- Final improvements to support for SOA, including
implementation-specific definitions of services and improved message header
support for routing to internal and external service nodes
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Additional support for Card Management
capabilities, which have greatly expanded the definition of the (credit, debit,
rewards, etc) Card object
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Improved support of transaction Authorizations,
including multiple party authorizations
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Additional improvements for Foreign Currency
conversions and alternate currencies in payment scenarios
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Improved definition of Recurring Models for
payments, transfers and orders
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Finalized list of deprecated items from v1.x
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 | Meet IFX Forum President Richard Urban at Sibos
in Amsterdam | If
you are going to the Sibos financial services event this
year (October 25-29 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands), set aside a little time on
your schedule to meet Rich Urban and hear about the newest developments with
IFX. If your company is not a member of
the Forum, Rich can explain how participating in the Forum could benefit your
organization. To set up a time to meet,
just send an email message to Judith Vanderkay of the IFX Forum Secretariat, jvanderkay@virtualmgmt.com.
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| IFX Forum Plays on the World Stage
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Since its inception, the IFX Forum has
made it a point to work with other major standards development organizations in
the financial services sector worldwide.
The Forum has been a major contributor
to the development of the ISO (International Organization
for Standardization; http://www.iso.org)
20022 UNIversal
Financial Industry Message scheme (UNIFI), an international standard that
defines the ISO platform for development of financial message standards. The IFX Forum co-founded the IST Harmonisation
team (ISTH), and we were in fact the
first organization to deliver support for ISO 20022, in IFX 1.6.
Currently, the IFX Forum is active as a
Category A Liaison organization to the ISO TC (Technical Committee) 68's SC
(Subcommittee) 7, sending our representatives to its meetings around the
world.
Recently, the IFX
Forum and the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN; http://www.bian.org), signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) outlining plans to collaborate in developing and furthering the
adoption of standards that enhance interoperability within the banking
industry. In addition, the Forum participates directly
in relevant conferences on standards development, including those held by ANSI
(American National Standards Institute; http://www.ansi.org/)
and the financial forum Sibos -- see accompanying article about
President Richard Urban's attendance at Sibos 2010.
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