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MT202pacs.009

MT202 → pacs.009

Context: General financial-institution transfer translation. Educational summary of common correspondences.

Contributor Shubham Mathure

MT202 → pacs.009 field mapping
MT202pacs.009CORRESPONDENCENOTE
:20:CdtTrfTxInf/PmtId/InstrIdPARTIALSender's reference becomes the instruction id; GrpHdr/MsgId is separately generated.
:21:CdtTrfTxInf/PmtId/EndToEndIdTRANSFORMEDThe related reference commonly carries into the end-to-end identification.
Block 3 / field 121CdtTrfTxInf/PmtId/UETRDIRECTSame UETR both sides.
:32A:CdtTrfTxInf/IntrBkSttlmDt + IntrBkSttlmAmtTRANSFORMEDDate and currency/amount split into separate elements.
:52a:CdtTrfTxInf/DbtrDIRECTIn pacs.009 the debtor is itself a financial institution.
:53a: / :54a:GrpHdr/SttlmInfTRANSFORMEDCorrespondent details restructure into settlement information.
:57a:CdtTrfTxInf/CdtrAgtDIRECTAccount-with institution → creditor agent.
:58a:CdtTrfTxInf/CdtrDIRECTThe beneficiary institution is the (financial-institution) creditor.
:72:InstrForNxtAgtPARTIALCoded where possible; free text resists clean translation.
Sources for this mapping2
  1. Market practice

    Payments Market Practice Group market practice documents ↗ — Payments Market Practice Group

    Global market practice for payment messaging, including guidance on structured party data, cover payments, and the coexistence of MT and ISO 20022 formats. · Checked 2026-07-12

    The PMPG publishes individual papers via the Swift website; its recommendations are market practice, not binding scheme rules, and adoption varies between institutions.

  2. Simplified educational illustration

    Payments Signal editorial teaching models — Payments Signal

    This site's own simplified teaching models. · Checked 2026-07-12

    What this simplifies: Row set curated for learning.

    Used wherever diagrams, scenarios, figures, or example values are didactic constructions rather than sourced facts; every such use carries a simplifications disclosure. All people, companies, banks, and list entries in examples are fictional.