Cash Letters Message Types

The following table lists all Cash Letter message types defined in Category 4.

For each message type, there is a short description, an indicator whether the message type requires authentication (Y or N), the maximum message length on input (2,000 or 10,000 characters) and whether the use of the message requires registration with SWIFT for use in a message user group (Y or N).

MT	MT Name	Purpose	Authen.	Max. Length	MUG
450	Cash Letter Credit Advice	Confirms that the face amount of cash letter(s) received has been credited under usual reserve (subject to final payment)	Y	2,000	N
455	Cash Letter Credit Adjustment Advice	Advises the account owner of adjustments made to its account (related to a previous credit for a cash letter)	Y	2,000	N
456	Advice of Dishonour	Advises the account owner that financial document(s) included in the cash letter have been dishonoured for reasons specified in the advice	Y	2,000	N

Note:

A Message User Group (MUG), for the purposes of this book, is a group of users who have voluntarily agreed to support the specified message type and have registered with SWIFT to send or receive the specified message type. These messages are indicated in the preceding table in the column MUG.

Registration is free of charge. To register to use one or more message types, submit a registration request (Register to a Message User Group) through the forms available on www.swift.com > Ordering > Order products and services.

To withdraw from a MUG, use the Deregister from a Message User Group request. These forms are available at www.swift.com > Ordering > Terminate and deactivate.

To get the list of other members of a particular MUG, send an MT 999 to the Customer Implementation team (SWHQBEBBCOS).