MT 206 Field Specifications

18. Field 32A: Value Date, Currency Code and Sum of Settlement Amounts

FORMAT

Option A 6!n3!a15d (Date) (Currency) (Amount)

PRESENCE

Conditional (C4)

DEFINITION

This field contains the value date which is to be applied to the funds that must be debited from the Receiver's account, or credited to the Sender's account, or the account of another party as specified in the bilateral agreement (see also the checklist on value dates). This is followed by, first the (common) currency for all the truncated cheques, and then the sum of all settlement amounts.

NETWORK VALIDATED RULES

Date must be a valid date expressed as YYMMDD (Error code(s): T50).

Currency must be a valid ISO 4217 currency code (Error code(s): T52).

The integer part of Amount must contain at least one digit. A decimal comma is mandatory and is included in the maximum length. The number of digits following the comma must not exceed the maximum number allowed for the specified currency (Error code(s): C03, T40, T43).

USAGE RULES

If messages are chained, ie, field 28E does not contain ONLY, this field must contain the sum of all occurrences of field 19 in the chained messages.