This message should only be used if the account owner(s) has (have) authorised the financial institutions to transmit such information. It must be used according to agreed criteria.
Financial institutions which receive this message must not use the information for their own purposes.
It is important that amounts be identical to those of the original transaction. For identification purposes, deductions, eg, charges above and beyond those previously accounted for, shall appear separately with the appropriate code. They shall use the same TRN as the original transaction, or other suitable reference if no TRN is available.
Since the length of a SWIFT message is restricted to the maximum input message length, several messages may be required to accommodate all the information for one statement.
Depending on financial practice and the agreement(s) between the account servicing institution and the account owner, the items reported in this message may or may not be considered as booked or available funds.