MT 104 Field Specifications

2. Field 21R : Customer Specified Reference

FORMAT

Option R

16x

PRESENCE

Conditional (C12)

DEFINITION

This field specifies the reference to the entire message assigned by either the:

• instructing party, when present or

• ordering customer, when the instructing party is not present.

NETWORK VALIDATED RULES

This field must not start or end with a slash '/' and must not contain two consecutive slashes '//' (Error code(s): T26).