MT 102 Field Specifications

30. Field 72: Sender to Receiver Information

FORMAT

6*35x (Narrative - Structured Format )

The following line formats must be used:

Line 1 /8c/[additional information]  
Lines 2-6 [//continuation of additional information]
or
[/8c/[additional information]]
 

PRESENCE

Optional

DEFINITION

This field specifies additional information for the Receiver.

USAGE RULES

This field may be used to provide additional information to the Receiver where no other field is available. In view of the possible delay of execution and/or rejection of the transaction(s), field 72 may only be used after bilateral agreement between the Sender and the Receiver and in encoded form.

The codes REJT/RETN may be used in this field. If either of these codes is used in the first position of the first line, placed between slashes ('/'), it is mandatory to follow the Generic Payment Reject Mechanism described in Standards Usage Guidelines.