INTERNATIONAL TREASURY SERVICES

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US ARMY FINANCE COMMAND

• INTERNATIONAL TREASURY SERVICES
• United States Army Finance Command
• Operation Support Team
• 1 October 2008
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Action, Conditions, Standard

• TASK ACTION Conduct International Treasury
  Services Enrollment Process.
• TASK CONDITIONS Given a requirement to conduct
  ITS Enrollment Process in a contingency
  environment, IAW DODFMR Volume 5 and ITS User
  Guide.
• TASK STANDARD Student should be able to perform
  the following without error
• 1. Identify delegation of authority
• 2. Process ITS.gov Official Authorization Forms

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Agenda

• Overview
• What is ITS.gov
• ITS.gov Capabilities
• Things to Know
• Enrollment Process
• Rules of Behavior

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ITS.gov Overview
ITS.gov is a comprehensive international payment
and collection system used for processing
international direct deposit payments to benefit
recipients and both electronic and check payments
to vendor, foreign payroll, and
miscellaneous payment recipients. ITS.gov offers
a government-wide common solution for issuing
international payments in established and
emerging markets worldwide.
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What is ITS.gov?
The Financial Management Service (FMS) provides
international payment services to over 175
Federal agencies enables Federal agencies to
issue foreign currency payments via direct
deposit, wire transfer, or draft to recipients in
over 150 countries. Additionally, ITS.gov
enables agencies to issue international US Dollar
wire transfer payments without a corresponding US
financial institution. FMS processes monthly
recurring benefit payments, foreign payroll,
vendor, and miscellaneous payments
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ITS.gov Capabilities

• Employs the latest enhanced security technology
  including two factor authentication through
  Public Key Infrastructure.
• Offers the lowest costs for sending international
  payments.
• Expedites payment settlements.
• Increases the ability to process international
  electronic payments in emerging markets.
• Purchases the foreign currency amount at the time
  of payment at the most competitive rate possible
  maximizing agency cash management.

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ITS.gov Capabilities (cont)

• Provides fast and easy-to-use foreign exchange
  currency purchase.
• Supports multiple levels of verification and
  various types of foreign exchange options,
  fixed-to-variable, variable-to-fixed, and
  fixed-to-fixed.
• Compatible with current agency file formats and
  effectively handles exception processing.

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• THINGS TO KNOW

• ITS.GOV Availability ITS.GOV is available for
  data entry and release of payments 2300 Sunday
  through 1700 Friday. ITS.gov is unavailable
  Monday through Thursday 1700-1800. All times
  are Eastern.
• Website Address https//www.ITS.GOV .
• Password Requirements ITS.GOV passwords must be
  8 digits, case sensitive (an upper case letter is
  different from a lower case letter), and require
  at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase
  letter, one number, and one special character (,
  ?, !, ). ITS.GOV passwords must be changed
  every 90 days. To obtain a new password or to
  have your password reset, contact the help desk
  at 201-531-3777 or e-mail the Security
  Administrator at NYITS.Administrator_at_ny.frb.org
• Time Out If you are logged into ITS.GOV and your
  computer remains inactive for over 15 minutes,
  ITS.GOV will automatically log you out of the
  system.

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ITS.gov Enrollment Process

• Authorizing Official (AO) nominated by Head of
  Organization (HOO, Mr. Eric Reid)
• Enrollment Forms completed and signed by AO
• Rules of Behavior signed by each enrolled User
• All blank forms are kept and all completed forms
  are sent to the ITS Security Administrator by
  e-mail at nyits.administrator_at_ny.frb.org, or fax
  at 201-531-3607

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ITS.gov Authorizing Official Nomination

• Obtain ITS.Gov Officials Authorization Form
  from ITS Security Administrator
• Head of Organization is Mr. Eric Reid
• Authorizing Official is at the Army site and
  who will sign Enrollment Form to enrol users
• Authorizing Officials Agency Location Code
  (ALC) or Region is four zeroes followed by DSSN
• Form is signed by Mr. Eric Reid

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ITS.gov Official Authorization Form
Mr. Reids Information
New AOs Information
ALC (0000 DSSN)
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ITS.gov Organization Enrollment and User Request
Form
User Information phone, e-mail, role
AOs Signature
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ITS.gov RULES OF BEHAVIOR

• The following Rules of Behavior are the minimum
  rules for external users who
• are requesting a user account for ITS.gov
• 1. You must conduct only authorized business on
  the system.
• 2. Your level of access to the FMS system,
  ITS.gov, is limited to ensure
• your access is no more than necessary to perform
  your legitimate tasks
• or assigned duties. If you believe you are being
  granted access that
• you should not have, you must immediately notify
  the ITS.gov Help
• Desk at FRBNY at [phone].
• 3. You must maintain the confidentiality of your
  authentication credentials
• such as your password. Do not reveal your
  authentication credentials to
• anyone you should never be asked to reveal your
  credentials.

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ITS.gov RULES OF BEHAVIOR (cont)

• 4. Do not share passwords with anyone else or use
  another persons
• password.
• 5. You must follow proper logon/logoff
  procedures. You must manually
• logon to your session do not store your password
  locally on your system
• or utilize any automated logon capabilities. You
  must promptly logoff
• when session access is no longer needed. If a
  logoff function is
• unavailable, you must close your browser. Never
  leave your computer
• unattended while logged into the system.
• 6. You must report all security incidents or
  suspected incidents (e.g., lost
• passwords, improper or suspicious acts) related
  to the FMS system to the
• ITS.gov Help Desk at [phone].

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ITS.gov RULES OF BEHAVIOR (cont)

• 7. You must not attempt to circumvent any ITS.gov
  security control
• mechanisms.
• 8. You must not establish any unauthorized
  interfaces between FMS
• applications and other non-FMS systems.
• 9. Users must utilize anti-virus protection
  mechanisms on any systems
• connecting to the FMS ITS.gov application.
• 10. Your access to the FMS system is governed by,
  and subject to, Federal
• law, including, but not limited to, the Privacy
  Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a, if the
• applicable FMS system maintains individual
  Privacy Act information.
• Your access to the FMS system constitutes your
  consent to the retrieval
• and disclosure of the information within the
  scope of your authorized
• access, subject to the Privacy Act, and
  applicable Federal laws.

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ITS.gov RULES OF BEHAVIOR (cont)

• 11. You must safeguard system resources against
  waste, loss, abuse,
• unauthorized use or disclosure, and
  misappropriation.
• 12. You must not process classified national
  security information on the system.
• 13. You must not browse, search or reveal FMS
  system information except in
• accordance with that which is required to perform
  your legitimate tasks or
• assigned duties. You must not retrieve
  information, or in any other way disclose
• information, for someone who does not have
  authority to access that
• information.
• 14. By your signature acknowledging acceptance
  you must agree to these rules.
• 15. You should contact your FMS Information
  System Security Officer or the
• ITS.gov Help Desk at FRBNY at [phone] if
  you do not understand any
• of these rules.

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ITS.gov RULES OF BEHAVIOR (cont)
Users Signature
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Questions? Contact the help desk _at_201-531-3777