SWIFT Message Type Reference

SWIFT groups message types into the following categories:

Customer Payments and Cheques

• See Category 1 Messages.

Financial Institution Transfers

• See Category 2 Messages.

Treasury Markets: Foreign Exchange and Derivatives

• See Category 3 Messages.

Collections and Cash Letters

• See Category 4 Messages.

Securities Markets

• See Category 5 Messages.

Treasury Markets: Precious Metals and Syndications

• See Category 6 Messages.

Documentary Credits and Guarantees

• See Category 7 Messages.

Travellers Cheques

• See Category 8 Messages.

Cash Management and Customer Status

• See Category 9 Messages.

The remainder of this section discusses these categories and the message types within each category. The 2009 and 2010 versions of the SWIFT Message Library are provided with the SWIFT Message Library. You must install each version from a separate SAR file. The tables in the following sections list each supported message type, though some are only supported in version 2009 or version 2010, but not both.

For explanations of the different versions, see the SWIFT Web site at http://www.swift.com.

Category 1 Messages

The table below lists the Category 1 message types, Customer Payments and Cheques, with the type designation MT 1xx.

Table 1 Customer Payments and Cheques

Category 2 Messages

The table below lists the Category 2 message types, Financial Institution Transfers, with the type designation MT 2xx.

Table 2 Financial Institution Transfers

Category 3 Messages

The table below lists the Category 3 message types, Treasury Markets, Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, and Derivatives, with the type designation MT 3xx.

Table 3 Treasury Markets, Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, and Derivatives

Category 4 Messages

The table below lists the Category 4 message types, Collections and Cash Letters, with the type designation MT 4xx.

Table 4 Collections and Cash Letters

Category 5 Messages

The table below lists the Category 5 message types, Securities Markets, with the type designation MT 5xx.

Table 5 Securities Markets

Category 6 Messages

The table below lists the Category 6 message types, Treasury Markets, Precious Metals, with the type designation MT 6xx.

Table 6 Treasury Markets, Precious Metals

Category 7 Messages

The table below lists the Category 7 message types, Treasury Markets, Syndication, with the type designation MT 7xx.

Table 7 Treasury Markets, Syndication

Category 8 Messages

The table below lists the Category 8 message types, Travellers Cheques, with the type designation MT 8xx.

Table 8 Travellers Cheques

Category 9 Messages

The table below lists the Category 9 message types, Cash Management and Customer Status, with the type designation MT 9xx.

Table 9 Cash Management and Customer Status

Validation Collaborations

The table below lists the Validation Collaboration. Validation Collaboration Definitions are provided for many key SWIFT message types.

Table 10 Common Group Messages

For information about the Validation Collaborations, see Using Message Validation Features.

SWIFT Generic Library

The SWIFT OTD Libraries include a Generic OTD used to route SWIFT messages. The Generic OTD can be used to parse any valid SWIFT message, allowing you to unmarshal and read the message headers to determine the message type, while leaving the message data as a String. Messages can then be routed to the appropriate OTD for that message type.

SWIFT Message Library JAR Files

The SWIFT Message Library include four JAR files, bic.jar, BICPlusIBAN.jar, SwiftOTDLibrary.jar, and SEPA.jar. These files are visible from the NetBeans Projects Window Swift directory. These JAR files provide the classes and methods that support the Validation Collaborations.