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PMPG Annual Activities Report 2011 now available 

The PMPG Annual Activities Report 2011 provides an overview of the PMPG’s deliverables for 2011 and the challenges the group will focus on in 2012.

White paper on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act 

The PMPG clarifies some of the key concepts of this new US legislation and points out some of its issues and implications.

Market Practice Guidelines for use of expanded US wire formats
In November 2011 the US high value payments systems Fedwire and CHIPS will implement a new message format that caters for extended remittance information.