Setting Permissions

This section outlines how to set account permissions and how to set payment and authorisation limits on different facilities for individual service users. You can set permissions for:

  • Transfers – debits and credits
  • Sterling payments – including BACS (Single), BACS Direct (Multiple), Faster Payments and CHAPS
  • International payments – including payments with live rates and international drafts
  • FX – foreign exchange
  • ICM – international cash management

Payment and authorisation limits

  • Payment / Dealing limit – the largest single value payment instruction a user can create
  • Authorisation / Dealing Limit – the largest single value payment a user can authorise

Payment and Authorisation limits can be set at different values for the same user.

To set or amend permissions

  1. Select Account Access

The Allocate Account screen opens

  1. Click the Permissions link
  2. Select the user group from the User Group drop-down list
  3. Select the user name from the Username drop-down list
  4. Click Select

The Account Permissions screen opens and the various types of payments are shown. If a particular payment type was not requested at registration, it will not be available.

  1. Click the appropriate tab to allocate accounts for each payment facility
  2. Enter the payment and authorisation limits, and dealing limits if registered for FX
  3. Check the All, None or Selected radio button

If you select All, any account added at a later date will automatically get this facility. If you choose Selected you must specify the accounts you want this facility applied to.

  1. Click Save
  • The Signing screen opens
  1. Check the details and click Sign and Submit
  2. Enter your PIN and click OK to confirm the action

Account Permissions

Cancel Payments

Payments can be post-dated up to 90 days in advance. If Cancel Payments has been enabled for the user, they can cancel a post-dated payment up until 6pm on the previous business day.

Enquire on Account

Lets the user view their allocated accounts. The default setting is All. If a user needs to make payments out of accounts but not allowed to view balance and statement information, this should be changed accordingly.

After any changes have been made to account permissions:

  1. Click Save
  • The Signing screen opens
  1. Check the details and click Sign and Submit
  2. Enter your PIN and click OK to confirm the action

Other Permissions

The Other Permissions tab contains Administer Beneficiaries. The default option is All. This allows the user to create or amend beneficiary details. If the User is not allowed to manage the beneficiaries, then None can be selected. If changes are made:

  1. Click Save
  • The Signing screen opens
  1. Check the details and click Sign and Submit
  2. Enter your PIN and click OK to confirm the action

FX Deal

When allocating dealing names to users, you can view the associated currency accounts by clicking on the dealing name. Once a dealing name has been allocated, the user will be able to:

  • Obtain a live FX rate – between any of the currencies contained within the dealing name
  • Execute a live FX deal – subject to the allocated limit

View all FX trade - via 'Find A Trade' for that dealing name, regardless of who originated the FX deal, including transactions via telephone

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