Financial Institution Transfers: Important Swift Mts (MT 2Xx)
Financial Institution Transfers: Important Swift Mts (MT 2Xx)
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SWIFTNet Messaging MVLCO
Message categories
" CAT 1: Customer Payments and Cheques
CAT 2: Financial Institution Transfers
CAT 3:Foreign Exchange, FX Derivatives
CAT 4: Collections and Cash Letters
CAT 5: Securities Markets
CAT 6: Precious Metals and Syndications
CAT 7:Documentary Credits and Guarantees
CAT 8: Travellers Cheques
. CAT 9: Cash Management and Customer Status
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SWIFT MT Messages MVLCO
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There are three tyypes of SWIFT messages
User to User Messages - These are messages sent from one
financial institution to another financial institution in order to
perform financial transactions. User-to-user messages are
further divided into 9 categories.
System messages - These messages are sent by SWIFT
system to user and vice versa. System messages are category 0
messages.
User-to-SWIFT messages (for example, Delivery Notifications,
Retrievals)
SWIFT-to-user messages (for example, Retrieved Messages, Non
Delivery Warnings)
Service messages - These messages, also known as Control
Messages, relate either to system commands such as LOGIN,
SELECT, QUIT or to acknowledgements.
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Connecting to SWIFT
Bank A BankA
CorparateA
Bank B
cop Bank B
Corporate B Bank C
BankC
"SWIFT administered
"Corporates join as participants
MA-CUG remains for non-eligitble corporates
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Connecting to SWIFT
(1) MT 940 and MT 942 can also be send by Financial Institutions outside of the SCORE Closed User Group environment to
Corporates in SCORE
Bank B
Bank A
Corporate A
Bank B
MT 195 Queries
MT 196 Answers
MT 199 Free format message
Bank A
Corporate A
Bank B