The MT 205 COV is a General Use message, that is, no registration in a Message User Group is necessary to send and receive this message.
The message contains a mandatory sequence to include information on an underlying customer credit transfer and has a maximum message length of 10,000 characters.
 IMPORTANT: |
To trigger the MT 205 COV format validation, the user header of the message (block 3) is mandatory and must contain the code COV in the validation flag field 119 ({3:{119:COV}}). |
