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MT 340 Field Specifications

46. Field 72: Sender to Receiver Information

FORMAT

6*35x (Narrative Structured Format)

The following line format must 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

Conditional (see rules C4, C5, C6, C7, and C10) in conditional (see rules C4, C5, C6, C7, and C9) sequence E

DEFINITION

This field specifies additional information for the Receiver and applies to the whole messages.

CODES

Bilaterally agreed codes can be used in this field. The following codes may be used in Code if required.

TIME When the time at which the transaction was concluded is to be specified.
VENU When the venue where the transaction was executed must be reported.

NETWORK VALIDATED RULES

Code must not be UTI, PUTI, USI or PUSI (Error code(s): T49).

USAGE RULES

If the Floating Rate Option is equal to OTHER, the code word /FROP/ must be used followed by the Floating Rate Option.

If the value of 'Period-from' in the first subfield is equal to 'O', the code word /DESM/ must be used followed by the Designated Maturity.

If the Floating Rate Day Count Fraction is equal to OTHER, the code word /DCTF/ must be used followed by the Day Count Fraction.

If the Financial Centre is equal to OTHR, the code word /LOCC/ must be used followed by the financial centre.

Bilaterally agreed codes can also be used in this field.

Each code used must be put between slashes and appear at the beginning of a line.

All alphabetic characters in a code must be in upper case.

Additional explanatory information, which may be continued on the next lines, is preceded by a double slash '//'. Narrative text that is not qualified by a code must start with a double slash '//' on a new line, and should preferably be the last information in this field.

Field 72 must not be used for information for which another field is intended.

The use of this field with unstructured text may require manual intervention and thus cause delay in automated systems.