Release notes

ARCA version 4.01

Changes:

  • New "Period End Date Flag" field to Repayment History Information and Financial Hardship segment. Indicates if the reported RHI-FHI Period ends in the calendar month of the reported period, or the next calendar month.
  • New "Address Line" fields to Account Holder segment to allow for semi-formatted addresses to be reported.
  • If no change has been made to Account Holder segment, then it is not mandatory for regular submissions.

To comply with the ARCA v4 changes. Aperture Data Studio has been updated with the following changes:

Name Version Aperture Data Studio Compatibility Description
ARCA Report Parser 2.1.0 2.0.6 Parser for files meeting the Australian Credit Reporting Data Standards (ACRDS) versions of the Credit Data Reporting schema
ARCA Response Parser 2.1.0 2.0.6 Parser for files meeting the Australian Credit Reporting Data Standards (ACRDS) versions of the Credit Data Response schema
ARCA Step 2.2.0 2.0.6 Custom Step that export Australian Retail Credit Association (ARCA) files and convert data conforming to the Australian Credit Reporting Data Standards (ACRDS)
  • New "Accounts - v4.0 ARCA Credit Data Reporting" template dataset and view
  • New "Experian – Export v1.3 (Export Ready)" workflow
    New alternative method to Export CCR XML’s for Aperture hosted environments.
  • New "Experian – Export v3.0 (Export Ready)" workflow
    New alternative method to Export CCR XML’s for Aperture hosted environments.
  • New "Experian – Export v4.0 (Export Ready)" workflow
    New alternative method to Export CCR XML’s for Aperture hosted environments.
  • Updated "Experian – Export v3.0 (Custom Step)" workflow
    Renamed workflow
  • New "Experian – Export v4.0 (Custom Step)" workflow
    ARCA v4 Export XML workflow.
  • New "Experian – Import CCR v3.0" workflow
    Allows for v3 XML submission data to be imported to Aperture as a flat file
  • New "Relationship is valid value v4" Function
    Validates Relationship is part of the approved list of values
  • New "Address is Supplied v4.0" Function
    Validates that the Address fields are populated.
  • New "Address Line is valid length" Function
    Validates that the Address Line length is in the correct range.
  • New "Address Line 2/3 is valid value" Function
    Validates that the Address Line 2 and 3 contain values that match the expected format
  • New "Experian – Create ARCA file v4.0 (Custom Step)" workflow
    ARCA v4 Export XML workflow.
  • Update "Experian – Create ARCA file v3.0 (Custom Step)" workflow
    Renamed workflow
  • New "Experian – Create ARCA file v3.0 (Export Ready)" workflow
    New alternative method to Export CCR XML’s for Aperture hosted environments.
  • New "Experian – Create ARCA file v4.0 (Export Ready)" workflow
    New alternative method to Export CCR XML’s for Aperture hosted environments.
  • New "Experian – Validate CCR v4.0" workflow
    Updated validation workflow to meet v4 ARCA standards
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