User Access Roles

Permission to perform certain functions in the FedPayments Manager is based upon user access role. Because access to the FedPayments Manager is no longer restricted to specific physical FedLine terminals, you have the option to provide access to more members of your institution who require information regarding payment activity.

Your institution's End User Authorization Contact (EUAC) will direct the Federal Reserve to assign individual users to one of the following access roles:

• Analyst
• Transfer Specialist
• Supervisor

Analyst

An individual assigned the user role of Analyst has the ability to view and print data belonging to the service unit to which he or she is assigned. This data includes incoming and outgoing messages as well as inquiries and reports. The Securities Analyst can view or print messages, but can take no other action with the data.

Note: Please determine if your institution performs transfer transactions offline for the Fedwire Securities Service and receives Securities reports through your existing DOS-based FedLine that is used for the Fedwire Funds Service. If so, in addition to the Fedwire Funds Service role, please select the "Analyst" role for the Fedwire Securities Service when you complete the necessary paperwork to request credentials for FedLine Advantage. This will allow you to continue to receive your Securities reports online when you convert to FedLine Advantage.

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Transfer Specialist

An individual assigned the Transfer Specialist user role has the ability to:

• Create a message by inputting data to a standard form or, in a future software release, from a custom template.
• Import a message or file of messages (individual transactions) that have been prepared in another software package or system. An imported file must be stored on a directory that is accessible from the Transfer Specialist's workstation.
• Update a message he or she has created, or a message created by another Transfer Specialist in the same service unit.
• Verify a message. The Federal Reserve Banks require independent verification of Fedwire messages. The default verification setting in the FedPayments Manager requires the verifier to be different from the last enterer or updater. However, if dual verification is performed outside of the FedPayments Manager, the default setting may be changed by the institution.
• Cancel a message. When a message is cancelled in the FedPayments Manager, no further action may be taken upon it. A message with a status of cancelled cannot be released by the FedPayments Manager to the Fedwire Securities Service.
• View and print messages belonging to the service unit to which he or she is assigned.

Inquiries and reports are also available for the Transfer Specialist to view and print.

Certain maintenance functions, such as adding institutions, third-party names, or CUSIPs to the look-up lists; and, in a future release, creating, updating, viewing, and printing customized templates, may also be performed by the Transfer Specialist.

The only task a Transfer Specialist cannot perform is updating processing options (settings, verification, and e-mail notification). This task rquires the Supervisor access role.

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Supervisor

The Supervisor has the ability to view and print incoming and outgoing messages, inquiries and reports belonging to the service unit to which he or she is assigned. A Supervisor may also cancel messages or release messages that were marked “held by supervisor”.

A Supervisor cannot create, import, update, or verify a message.

Processing options specific to the service unit may also be assigned or updated by the Supervisor. These processing options include:

• General Settings
  • Allow duplicate reference numbers
  • Require that all messages be held by the Supervisor
  • Insert a carriage return and line feed between each message when using the export function
  • Set a maximum par value amount and payment amount for messages that can be processed
• Verification Settings
  • Require sight verification; key verification of dollar amount, CUSIP or par amount; or no verification
  • Require verifier to be different from enterer and last updater
  • Require verifier to be different from only the last updater
  • Permit the verifier to be the same as the enterer and last updater
  • Require verification for service messages
  • Set a requirement for verification for messages over a certain dollar value
• E-mail Notification Settings
  • Request e-mail notification for incoming or rejected messages
  • Add, delete, or modify e-mail addresses that receive notification for incoming or rejected messages

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