How to Join
the IFX Forum
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| If your organization would like to become a member of the IFX Forum,
send an email message to membership@ifxforum.org.
You will receive a set of materials in response: the Forum Bylaws and
Membership Rules for your reference (also available from links at the
top of this page), the Membership Application, and a Membership Letter
customized to your organization. You should fill out and sign the
Application and Letter, and return to the address noted. You will then
receive an invoice at the appropriate dues level, and all privileges
will begin as soon as dues payment is received.
Information about membership is available here.
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October
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| The next face-to-face meeting is scheduled to take place in October 2010. Watch for
more information about the location, recommended hotel, and program.
All
IFX Forum members may send as many participants as
they like to a Forum meeting at no charge. Non-members are welcome as
well, for a meeting fee of $695, which is deducted
from the first year's dues if they join the Forum within 60 days of the
meeting.
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Welcome to the IFX Forum Newsletter!
We plan to bring you news and updates about the
IFX specification and the activities of the IFX Forum approximately four times
a year in this newsletter format. Additionally, we will archive past issues of
the newsletter on our website.
If you have a story you would like to
share, a question about an article or a topic you would like to see covered,
please write to info@ifxforum.org.
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"Virtual
Face-to-Face" IFX Forum
Working Meeting Starts July 14 |  In years past, the IFX Forum held
quarterly face-to-face meetings
in addition to the regular weekly and monthly teleconferences individual
working
groups conduct. The face-to-face venues
allow work groups to confer with each other, share progress and
perspective,
review each others' content and tie up loose ends with the Architecture
Committee in order to finalize content for the next release of the
standard.
For the past two years or so we have changed our
practice to
substitute a series of conference calls for two of those meetings in
order to respect restricted travel budgets of our members. Our next
"virtual face-to-face" kicks off
July 14 at 10 AM EDT with a discussion of Payments, and continues for a few hours each day the following Monday through Thursday. Visit our website to see the detailed agenda. IFX Forum members will receive dial-in and webconferencing information via email.
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Check Out Our Updated Website
| We've just updated much of the content of the IFX Forum website, and we hope you will have a look. The new material describes the value and use of IFX in the ATM/POS
sector, Branch Banking, Business/Corporate Banking, Card Services &
Management, and Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment. And, we've included the current activities
and plans of the Working Groups that cover these areas.
If you would like to get involved in developing
enhancements and additions to IFX, come join a Working Group - just get in
touch with a WG Chair, or write to info@ifxforum.org.
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| New
Proposals Approved by Architecture in Preparation for
IFX v2.1 Release | Since the initial IFX Version 2.0 Release Candidate, the
Forum's Architecture Committee has assessed a significant amount of input and
proposals from the member community and working groups in preparation for the next
release. The Forum's Architecture
Committee has approved more than 30 proposals for inclusion in the next release
of IFX and is in the final stages of reviewing about a dozen more.
IFX Version 2.1 is currently anticipated to reach the final
approval milestones in July.
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| 2010 Elections & Annual Meeting | At the 2010 Annual Meeting, hosted by CSC in April near Dallas, Texas,
IFX Forum members re-elected Victor Dossey, Microsoft Corporation, and Ewan
McGuire, NCR, to the Forum's Board of Directors for terms expiring in
2013. In addition, Richard Feight of
Citigroup was elected to fill an open three-year seat, and Murray Heldon of
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was elected to a one-year term.
The new Board then re-appointed President Richard P. Urban
and re-elected Chairman Richard DuVall of ACI Worldwide, Treasurer Lee Hou of
FIS, and Secretary Mark Tiggas of Wells Fargo.
A highlight of this year's Annual Meeting was a
well-attended three-hour "Introduction to IFX" tutorial session
presented by Rich Urban on the event's first day, which focused on the new
features of IFX Version 2. Videos of the
session will soon be posted on the Forum's website, and the presentation itself
may be downloaded from our home page.
The Texas
event featured intense hands-on collaborative sessions for the Forum's active
Working Groups, and additional days were devoted to IFX architectural
considerations. The Steering Committee
also met to discuss and advance the Forum's business plans,including
extended discussion with representatives from BIAN (Banking Industry
Architecture Network) about how best to collaborate going forward, considering
the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding between IFX and BIAN.
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