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Ⅲ.  Interbank Funds transfer
38.The transferor bank shall initiate the transfer information, with each 
  transaction order to include the user ID and password of the authorized 
  transmission personnel, the transferor bank account, the time of the transfer
  (real-time or forward ttansfer), the transferee bank account, the transfer amount
  , the date of transfer and the type of transaction. Upon the receipt of the 
  information, and once the Bank has verified the password and that the authorized 
  transmission personnel user ID is tallied, the order will be executed as 
  instructed therein; otherwise it shall be returned.
  Where a transfer has been effected in accordance with the provisions of the 
  preceding Paragraph, an online institution may offer no opposition to the
  transfer on the grounds that the transmission personnel were not those
  originally authorized, that others assumed their role under pretense, or for
  any other reason.
38-1.If an interbank fund transfer relates to a securities settlement, it can only 
  be processed with a real-time transfer. Each instruction shall include the 
  items prescribed in paragraph 1, Direction 38, and additional information such 
  as the transferor or the transferee securities firm’s account number, account 
  name, or code.
39.The Bank may, if necessary, stipulate a minimum amount for each interbank fund 
  transfer.
40.Once a real-time transfer transaction is accepted by the Bank, the account 
  transfer will be executed immediately and irrevocably if the available balance 
  of the transferor bank is sufficient for payment.
  After the execution, the Bank will simultaneously inform both parties of the 
  transaction as well as record the resulting book balance.
  However, if the available balance of the transferor bank is insufficient for 
  payment, the said transaction shall be alternatively processed through the 
  queuing mechanism.
[Related Circulars]
41.Once a transaction is accepted by the Bank, if the available balance of the transferor 
  bank is insufficient for payment, the Bank shall assign one of the following classes 
  of priority to the said transaction, and process it through the queuing mechanism:
  (1) First class: Funds payable by the financial institution to the Bank.
  (2) Second class: Negotiable instruments for clearing payable by a financial 
    institution, the net amount payables for negotiable instruments cleared by the 
    clearing house, securities settlement funds transfers, credit card settlement 
    funds transfers or funds appropriated to the "interbank funds transfer guarantee 
    special account" by the financial institution.
  (3) Third class: Funds for forward transfers to repay interbank call loans when due.
  (4) Fourth class: Funds transfers between financial institutions as well as other 
    payments.
42.Payment orders of the same priority stated in Direction 41 shall be executed
  based on the principle of first-in-first-out. However, if the available
  balance is insufficient to cover payments for payment instructions of high 
  priority, the Bank may first execute the payment instructions of a lower 
  priority, and after completing all payment instructions of the same priority
  in order, then process payment instructions of the next priority.
  In case a transferor bank intends to revoke a real-time transfer transaction
  in queue, or discovers an error in the payment instruction, it may initiate
  an instruction for revocation.
43.For transactions processed in accordance with the preceding two Directions, 
  if the available balance is still insufficient for payment towards the cutoff 
  time of the queuing mechanism, all payment orders remaining in the queue shall
  be immediately revoked, and the Bank shall simultaneously notify both parties 
  to the transaction; among the cancelled orders, the negotiable instruments for 
  clearing and the net amount payable for negotiable instruments clearing for
  first class and second class shall be processed in accordance with pertinent
  directions of this Bank.
  For those transfer transactions revoked as stated in the preceding Paragraph,
  the Bank may issue a "Certificate of Transfer Transaction Revoked due to 
  Insufficient Funds" as per transferee bank's application.
44.The forward transfer instruction shall include the transfer date on which the 
  transfer will be executed. The Bank shall inform both parties of the transaction 
  in advance upon receiving the instruction, and place it in file. The transfer 
  shall be executed and posted to the related account at 1:30 in the afternoon on 
  the designated transfer date; if there is insufficient fund to cover payment of 
  a forward transfer transaction, it shall be processed through the queuing 
  mechanism.
  If the designated transfer date is not a business day, the execution of the 
  transaction shall be deferred to the next business day.
45.If a transferor bank intends to revoke a forward transfer transaction or 
  discovers an error in the content of the instruction, it may negotiate with 
  the transferee bank for initiating an instruction for revocation either on the 
  transmission date or the designated transfer date.
  Where the transferee bank in the preceding Paragraph is an offline institution, 
  it may fill out a "Letter of Authorization for the Revocation of Interbank Funds
  transfer Transaction" (Format 2) to entrust the Department of Banking of the
  Bank to revoke the instruction on its behalf.
46.If an offline institution sends its staff bearing negotiable instruments to the
  Bank to process fund transfers, in all cases the transfers will be processed on
  a real-time basis. However, if the available balance of the transferor bank is 
 insufficient for payment, it will not be placed in queue and the negotiable 
 instrument will be returned on the spot. 
 The staff sent to conduct the transfer shall wait for the processing result 
 before they leave.
47.In order to avoid the delay of processing payment instructions, the Bank may
  set up criteria to require the financial institutions to ensure that a certain
  proportion of their outgoing payments are processed before a specified time 
  each day.
[Authorized Circulars]
48. Any fund transfers for open market operations, rediscounting, bond or treasury
  bill transactions, foreign exchange transactions or other operations between an 
  online institution and an internal unit of the Bank shall be processed 
  according to the following provisions. A statement of the fund transfers and 
  the account balance after settlement shall be provided to the online 
  institutions.
  (1) For payments due to the Bank from an online institution, except where other 
    laws or regulations stipulate payment through the issuance of a note with 
    the Bank as the payer, the online institution may transfer funds from its 
    account in the “CBC Interbank Funds Transfer System” to the account 
    designated by the Bank or have a deduction made from its own account by the 
    Bank in accordance with prior agreement.
  (2) For payments due to an online institution from the Bank, the Bank shall 
    transfer funds into the online institution's account.
  The provisions in Directions 40 ~ 43 herein shall apply mutatis mutandis to the 
  situation where a deduction is made from the account of the online institution 
  by the Bank in accordance with prior agreement as stipulated in subparagraph 1 
  of the preceding paragraph.
49.Where a transferor bank transmits fund transfer information and fails to 
  receive a return confirmation from the Bank for an inordinate amount of time,
  it shall trace the transaction, and where the transaction order has not been 
  successfully transmitted, the online institution shall retransmit the
  information.
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