Category 6 Reference Data Message Types

The following table lists all message types defined in category 6 Reference Data.

For each message type, there is a short description, an indicator whether the message type is signed (Y or N), the maximum message length (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	Signed (1)	Max Length	MUG
670	Standing Settlement Instruction Update Notification Request	Requests SWIFT to create the MT 671 from the MT 670 and send to financial institutions.	Y	10,000	N
671	Standing Settlement Instruction Update Notification	Specifies standing settlement instructions for one or more currencies.	Y	10,000	N
690	Advice of Charges, Interest and Other Adjustments	Advises an account owner of charges, interest or other adjustments to its account	Y	2,000	N
691	Request for Payment of Charges, Interest and Other Expenses	Requests payment of charges, interest or other expenses	Y	2,000	N
692	Request for Cancellation	Requests the Receiver to consider cancellation of the message identified in the request	Y	2,000	N
695	Queries	Requests information relating to a previous message or amendment to a previous message	Y	2,000	N
696	Answers	Responds to an MT 595 Queries or MT 592 Request for Cancellation or other message where no specific message type has been provided for the response	Y	2,000	N
698	Proprietary Message	Contains formats defined and agreed to between users and for those messages not yet live	Y	10,000	N
699	Free Format Message	Contains information for which no other message type has been defined	Y	2,000	N

(1) A Relationship Management Application (RMA) authorisation is required in order to sign a message with the exception of the MT 670 and MT 671. Although the MT 670 and MT 671 are signed there is no need to set up RMA for these two messages as they are exchanged between the user and SWIFT. For more details on the signing of the MT 670 and MT 671, please see the FIN Operations Guide.

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 (Order Message User Group) through the forms available on www.swift.com > Ordering & Support > Ordering > Order Products and Services > Message User Group (MUG).

To withdraw from a MUG, use the Terminate your MUG subscription request. These forms are available at www.swift.com > Ordering & Support > Ordering > Terminate and deactivate > Message User Group (MUG).

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