FedLine Direct^® and FedLine Command^® Service Descriptions

FedLine Direct

Service	Description
Accounting Services	Provide the ability to receive the Intra-Day Reconcilement (IDAY), Financial Institution Reconcilement Data (FIRD) and/or Service Charge Reconcilement Data (SCRD) files. Please visit the Accounting Services Forms page and locate the Accounting Information Services Subscription Form for additional information.
Billing Services	Provide the ability to receive monthly Billing activity in a machine-readable data file.
Electronic Check Processing Services	Provide the ability to send and receive image cash letters (ICLs) electronically.
FedACH® Services	Provide the ability to transmit and receive input and output files with FedACH. In addition to payments files, customers may also receive file acknowledgements, advices and balance reports.
FedNow® Service	Service enables access to the FedNow interface, a web-based authenticated tool for participants to manage their FedNow interface Authorized Connection Profile and Participant Profile to change settings and access reports related to the FedNow Service.
Fedwire® Funds Service	Provides the ability to send or receive time-critical payments on behalf of corporate or individual clients, provide cash concentration, settle positions with other financial institutions related to other clearing arrangements, submit federal tax payments and buy and sell Federal Reserve Bank funds.
Fedwire Funds Service (Statements)	Provides a summary of the participant’s daily Fedwire Funds Service activities.
Fedwire Securities Service	Provides the ability to maintain and transfer securities issued by the U.S. Treasury, many federal government agencies, government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) and some international organizations.
Fedwire Securities Service (Issuer files and Statements)	Issuer Files – Provides Fedwire Securities issuers the ability to send files to prepare for the issuance of securities and calculation of upcoming principal and interest payments. Statements – Provides a variety of statements for Fedwire Securities Service participants. These statements reflect a participant’s daily Fedwire Securities Service activities, holdings positions and anticipated debit/credit payments originated from upcoming Principal and Interest (P&I) payments or claim adjustments.
National Settlement Service	A multilateral settlement service offered to depository institutions that settle for participants in clearinghouses, financial exchanges and other clearing and settlement groups. A settlement agent, acting on behalf of those depository institutions in the settlement arrangement, electronically submits settlement files via the National Settlement Service.

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FedLine Command

Service	Description
Accounting Services	Provide the ability to receive the Intra-Day Reconcilement (IDAY), Financial Institution Reconcilement Data (FIRD) and/or Service Charge Reconcilement Data (SCRD) files. Please visit the Accounting Services Forms page and locate the Accounting Information Services Subscription Form for additional information.
Billing Services	Provide the ability to receive monthly Billing activity in a machine-readable data file.
FedACH® Services	Provide the ability to transmit and receive input and output files with FedACH. In addition to payments files, customers may also receive file acknowledgements, advices and balance reports.
Fedwire Securities Service (Issuer files and Statements)	Issuer Files – Provides Fedwire Securities issuers the ability to send files to prepare for the issuance of securities and calculation of upcoming principal and interest payments. Statements – Provides a variety of statements for Fedwire Securities Service participants. These statements reflect a participant’s daily Fedwire Securities Service activities, holdings positions and anticipated debit/credit payments originated from upcoming Principal and Interest (P&I) payments or claim adjustments.

“All Other Files” includes the following:

Service	Description
Account Management Agent (AMA) Services	Provide account management services to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) for the Food Stamp Program’s Automated Standard Application for Payments (ASAP) account.
Automated Clearing House (ACH) Reclamations	Used by the U.S. Treasury to collect funds that have been disbursed to depository institutions by electronic funds transfer or check to beneficiaries who are deceased and, in the case of check reclamations, payees who claim non-receipt.
Automated Standard Application for Payments (ASAP) Services	Enable grantee organizations receiving federal funds to draw from accounts set up and pre-authorized by federal agencies.
Board of Governors Securities Information Service	Provides the ability for daily securities data to be transmitted to the Board of Governors.
Book Entry Savings Bonds	Provide Savings Bonds Book Entry customers the ability to submit and receive files.
CA$H-LINK Services	A deposit-reporting and cash-concentration system that expedites the flow of government funds into the Treasury’s General Account (TGA).
CASH TRACK Services	A system used by the Treasury to track and forecast, on a cash basis, the daily receipts and expenditures of the U.S. government.
Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS) Services	Provide the ability for the New York Clearing House to transmit the following files daily: CHIPS Detail Transaction Data, CHIPS Summary Information per Depository Institution (DI), CHIPS Traffic Analysis Report, Real Time Payments (RTP) Payment and Funding Activity Report and RTP Position Report.
Commercial Borrower In Custody Credit Risk Services	Provide Commercial Borrower in Custody services.
Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) Deposit Ticket Debit Voucher Services	Provide the Treasury Financial Agent (TFA) Deposit Ticket Debit Voucher Services.
E-Payments Routing Directory FedACH RDFI File	Provides the ability to receive the daily E-Payments Routing Directory file of all FedACH participant receiving depository financial institutions (RDFIs). This service is not available for new customers.
Financial Market Infrastructure Oversight Services	Provide the ability for financial market infrastructures to transmit data to the Board of Governors.
Money Market Instruments	Provide the ability for daily financial market instrument data to be transmitted to the Federal Reserve Banks.
Payment System Risk (PSR) In-Transit Service	Provides the ability to transmit a file containing Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures (CUSIP) par balance information for collateral pledged to secure daylight overdrafts.
Repo Files	Provide the ability for daily General Collateral Finance Repo and Bilateral Repo information to be transmitted to the Federal Reserve Banks.
State Street Bank (SSB) Collateral Report Services	Provide SSB Bi-weekly In-transit Collateral Report.
Stored Value Card Services	Provide the ability to transmit and receive input and output files with stored value card customers for the EZPay and EagleCash programs.
Treasury Investment Program (TIP) Services	An application used to collect and report corporate tax payments and invest Treasury Funds with participating financial institutions.

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