Papua New Guinea (PNG) ABA Fixed File format:

The bank requires a predefined PNG ABA Domestic Payments payment file definition to be established at the Bank Admin level. This file definition will apply to a payment method of ACH or BKT only.  The payment method will be determined in the payment file definition identified when a user uploads a file and the file upload process will set the payment method for this file based upon the associated payment file definition selected – PNG-ABA-ACH or PNG-ABA-BKT. 

There are some specific details about the PNG ABA file format that are important to the file upload process. The PNG ABA file has the same constraints as the Australian ABA file. They are repeated below for information.

A PNG ABA file will contain only one “set” of payment instructions – i.e., only one ‘set’ of Descriptive, Detail and Batch Control records.) The records in the PNG ABA file to be uploaded must follow a defined order. Each batch must: