Iso 20022 Guide
Iso 20022 Guide
financial institutions
Background
Since March 2023, the way the Swift
community exchanges payments Next steps of coexistence
messages has been transformed
Now that the go-live for ISO 20022 adoption of ISO 20022 in preparation
with ISO 20022. This promises to
for cross-border payments and for the end of co-existence, and the
unlock huge opportunities for financial
reporting (CBPR+) has happened, retirement of Categories 1, 2, and 9
institutions, such as boosting
and the coexistence period has of MT messages in November 2025.
operational efficiency, enhancing
started, here’s what you can do to
customer experience, and enabling
be ready for the future. If you are new to Swift, or if you
innovative new services.
were not fully ready for the start
If you’ve already started sending of coexistence in March 2023, it’s
Get support
CBPR+ messages, we’re looking important to make sure that you’re
The Swift community decided to forward to seeing you progress able to run a messaging interface that
adopt ISO 20022 for CBPR+ in 2018 through your activation plans and supports the receipt and handling of
and the Swift Board approved plans increasing volumes. If not the case multi-format MX messages. It is also
to facilitate adoption. SWIFT’s related yet, we encourage you to start important that you have a working
ISO 20022 programme includes a suite planning and working towards native FINplus configuration that includes
of supporting documents. These set RMA authorisations.
out the steps to take concerning
implementation activities.