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MT 559 Field Specifications

26. Field 72: Sender to Receiver Information

FORMAT

6*35x (Narrative)

In addition to narrative text, structured text with the following line formats may be used:

Line 1 /8c/[additional information] (Code)(Narrative)
Lines 2-6 [//continuation of additional information]
or
[/8c/[additional information]]
(Narrative)
or
(Code)(Narrative)

PRESENCE

Optional

DEFINITION

This field provides additional information about the claim in the sequence in which it occurs.

CODES

One or more of the following codes may be used in Code:

MSG579 MT 579 Where an MT 579 Certificate Numbers is needed to supplement the information in field 35E.
RETRO Retrocession A drawback of commission paid by a paying agent to a financial institution acting as a sub-paying agent but which has not been recognised by the issuer as a paying agent.

USAGE RULES

The structured format may be used for bilaterally agreed codes.

Codes must be between slashes and must appear at the beginning of a line.

Narrative text must not begin with a slash and, if used, must begin on a new line and be the last information in the field.

Additional explanatory information, which may be continued on the next lines, is preceded by a double slash '//'.

This field may include ERI, as specified in the chapter entitled "Euro-Related Information (ERI)" in the Standards MT General Information.