MT 104 Field Specifications

13. 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

Conditional (C5)

DEFINITION

This field specifies additional information for the Receiver, ie, Sender of the original message regarding the reason for a return, ie, reversal, rejection or revocal.

CODES

The codes REJT or RETN must be used in this field 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.

NETWORK VALIDATED RULES

The first element in line 1 must contain either code /RETN/ or /REJT/ (Error code(s): D82).

USAGE RULES

The Reject/Return mechanism is used to reject or return all the transactions within the MT 104 message due to e.g. non-compliance with the domestic scheme requirements. For returns or rejections of a single transaction within the MT 104 (ie, sequence B), the MT 195 should be used as per the Standards Usage Guidelines.