Financial Transaction Manager for Immediate Payments

This part contains information about IBM® Financial Transaction Manager for Immediate Payments.

Overview
Due to the increasing widespread use of mobile devices, consumers now expect instantaneous responses. This expectation creates an increasing demand from consumers for faster completion of electronic payments.
Planning
The planning sections help prepare for the installation of Financial Transaction Manager for Immediate Payments.
Installation
The following information provides an overview of how to install and deploy FTM for Immediate Payments.
Functional flows
This section provides an overview of the functional flows that represent the use cases of the Financial Transaction Manager for Immediate Payments application.
Setup and customization
FTM for Immediate Payments provides a functional application that can exercise the payment processes around immediate payment schemes. However, there are a number of steps that all customers should do in order to ensure the application functions according to their requirements. This section provides the instructions and guidance needed to set up and customize FTM for Immediate Payments to meet customer requirements.
Integration overview
Configuration
Prioritization and throttling for outgoing payments
Most immediate payment schemes have service level agreements (SLAs) for incoming and outgoing payments. For example, after a payment is received, you have a few seconds in which to respond.
Mappers
Simulators
The Immediate Payments application contains several service simulators, which are described in the following sections.
FTM for Digital Payments integration
The following topics describe aspects that are specific to FTM for Immediate Payments when it is integrated with FTM for Digital Payments.
TCH Connectivity
Connecting the Immediate Payments application to The Clearing House.
FTM for Immediate Payments security
Security standards are intended to help you protect personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive personal information (SPI). Depending on the types of data you process and the countries that you operate in, multiple standards might apply.