Acme Citibank Australia Payments

This describes validations / allowed data formats for Acme payments going through Citibank Australia. These will be validated by Acme and further validated by the bank. These rules may be stricter than what the bank requires.

Common Definitions

• SWIFT Character Set:

  • The 26 uppercase Latin letters A-Z
  • The 26 lowercase Latin letters a-z
  • The 10 digits 0-9
  • Forward slash /
  • Hyphen -
  • Question mark ?
  • Colon :
  • Left and right parentheses ( )
  • Full stop .
  • Comma ,
  • Single quote '
  • Plus sign +
  • Space  

• Citi restrictions:

  • For SWIFT character set: do not start a field with any of the following characters: /, -, :

AU_BECS

field	pattern / charset	max length	mandatory/optional
customerReference	SWIFT (uppercase only)	15	M
paymentDetails	SWIFT	18	O
receiver.name	SWIFT	32	M
receiver.bankAccountNumber	Numeric	9	M
receiver.localRoutingIdentifier	Numeric (6 digit BSB)	6	M
receiver.address	SWIFT	35 chars x 3	O

AU_HVCS

field	pattern / charset	max length	mandatory/optional
customerReference	SWIFT (uppercase only)	16	M
paymentDetails	SWIFT	140	O
bankChargeBearer	SENDER or RECEIVER or SHARED		M
receiver.name	SWIFT	35	M
receiver.bankAccountNumber	Numeric	9	M
receiver.localRoutingIdentifier	Numeric (6 digit BSB)	6	M
receiver.address	SWIFT	35 chars x 3	O

AU_OSKO

field	pattern / charset	max length	mandatory/optional
customerReference	SWIFT (uppercase only)	15	M
paymentDetails	SWIFT	18	O
receiver.name	SWIFT	32	M
receiver.bankAccountNumber	Numeric	9	M
receiver.localRoutingIdentifier	Numeric (6 digit BSB)	6	M
receiver.address	SWIFT	35 chars x 3	O

TT

field	pattern / charset	max length	mandatory/optional
customerReference	SWIFT (uppercase only)	15	M
paymentDetails	SWIFT	140	O
instructionForSenderBank	SWIFT	35	O
bankChargeBearer	SENDER or RECEIVER or SHARED		M
receiver.name	SWIFT	35	M
receiver.bank	Alphanumeric	11	M
receiver.intermediaryBank	Alphanumeric	11	O
receiver.bankAccountNumber	Alphanumeric + Dash	34	M
receiver.address	SWIFT	35 chars x 3	O

ACT

field	pattern / charset	max length	mandatory/optional
customerReference	SWIFT (uppercase only)	15	M
paymentDetails	SWIFT	140	O
instructionForSenderBank	SWIFT	35	O
receiver.name	SWIFT	35	M
receiver.bankAccountNumber	Alphanumeric	34	M
receiver.address	SWIFT	35 chars x 3	O