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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.
Market Practice Guidelines for the International Payment Charges Claiming Process
The paper establishes market practice guidelines for the claiming process for charges that result from cross border payments, including best practices for claims related inquiries..