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.

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• 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_BECSCopy Anchor Link

AU_HVCSCopy Anchor Link

AU_OSKOCopy Anchor Link

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Bank referencesCopy Anchor Link

bankReference is AcctSvcrRef, else ClrSysRef, from Citi's status report on the payment. bankReferences lists every reference Citi sent, keyed by Citi's field name: AcctSvcrRef, ClrSysRef and StsId, as Citi sends them.

On your Citi statement: the line shows a different Citi reference. Find the payment by your customerReference.

What the names mean:

• AcctSvcrRef: Citi's own reference for the transaction.
• ClrSysRef: the clearing system's reference.
• StsId: the id of Citi's status entry.

A rejected payment keeps the references from the report that rejected it.

A completed payment sent as a file returns:

{
  "bankReference": "01720322200000001",
  "bankReferences": {
    "AcctSvcrRef": "01720322200000001"
  }
}