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Fedwire® Funds Service

The Fedwire Funds Service is the premier electronic funds-transfer service that banks, businesses and government agencies rely on for mission-critical, same-day transactions. Fedwire Funds Service participants benefit from the finality of payments credited to their Federal Reserve Bank master accounts.

Fedwire Funds Service participants can use the service to:

  • Send or receive payments for their own accounts or on behalf of corporate or individual clients
  • Settle commercial payments
  • Settle positions with other financial institutions or clearing arrangements
  • Submit federal tax payments
  • Buy and sell federal funds

Product sheet (PDF)

Extension Guidelines

Operating hours

Service setup

Sending and Receiving Wires

FedLine Advantage® Solution

The FedPayments® Manager – Funds application, a web-based solution, gives credentialed users access to manually create or import/upload a file for processing.

FedLine Direct® Solution

Unattended real-time computer-to-computer access for higher-volume message processing.

Information and Reporting Services

FedTransaction Analyzer®

Enables financial institutions to automate and standardize after-the-fact analysis of Fedwire Funds Service transactions.

Frequently Asked Questions

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All successfully processed messages will contain the Input Message Accountability Data (IMAD) and Output Message Accountability Data (OMAD) identifications.
You can send a nonvalue camt.110 investigation request message to confirm receipt.

You can send a nonvalue camt.056 return request message to return the amount of the original wire.