diff --git a/src/test/java/com/solab/iso8583/parse/TestEncoding.java b/src/test/java/com/solab/iso8583/parse/TestEncoding.java
index 2878929..1aaa4f4 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/solab/iso8583/parse/TestEncoding.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/solab/iso8583/parse/TestEncoding.java
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@ import org.junit.Test;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.text.ParseException;
 
-import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
-import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.not;
-
 /**
  * Test parsing of data with different encodings.
  *
@@ -25,7 +22,7 @@ public class TestEncoding {
         final LlvarParseInfo parser = new LlvarParseInfo();
         parser.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
         IsoValue<?> field = parser.parse(1, buf, 0, null);
-        Assert.assertThat((String)field.getValue(), not(equalTo(data.substring(2))));
+        Assert.assertNotEquals(field.getValue(), data.substring(2));
         parser.setCharacterEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
         field = parser.parse(1, buf, 0, null);
         Assert.assertEquals(data.substring(2), field.getValue());