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About FEX

What is FEX?

Services provided by FEX

What is FEX?

FEX stands for Axway Financial Exchange. FEX provides a framework of services that enables financial entities to exchange finance-related documents electronically. It is largely used to process payments in a fast, secure and highly reliable manner.

The main categories of customers who benefit from FEX are:

Services provided by FEX

FEX leverages the products of the Axway 5 Suite to provide the following services:

Category Provided services
Standardized protocol support

EBICS

EDINT (AS1, AS2, AS3)

ETEBAC3, ETEBAC5

FTP

FTPS

HTTP /S

OFTP

PeSIT

SFTP

SWIFTNet: FileAct / InterAct, RT, SnF

TARGET2

...

Standardized formats support

BAI2

CFONB

CleiOP

DTAUS

DTAZV

EBA STEP2

EDIFACT

Fedwire

FIN - ISO 15022

ISO 20022

NACHA

SEEV (Proxy Voting)

SEPA SCT & SDD (ISO 20022)

SWIFT-XML

TARGET2

Trade Services Utility (TSU)

...

Message services

Transformation between formats

Bulking and debulking

Enrichment, database access

Format and syntax validation

Dynamic routing based on message content

Integration with back-end applications

Manual message handling

Storage

Creation

Recycling

Validation (Syntax, BIC)

Content browsing

Four eyes security (separate users for modification and validation)

Partner management

Partner-based control and management of exchanges

Protocol communications

Partner agreements

Preferences for message handling

Exception Handling Error tracking, exchange retries, ...  
Monitoring

Business events

Technical events

End-to-End exchanges
Collaborative process control Control and management of exchanges with customers and interbanking area  
Security

Encryption

Multifactor authentication

Access control
Reliability services High availability (Cluster architecture)  
Signature Service Personal signature (payments)  

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Main uses of FEX