Category 2: Financial institution transfers
MT256 Advice of Non-Payment of Cheques
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Retired: no longer sent on the Swift network.
The MT256 told the bank that had sent cheque truncation messages that some of the truncated cheques had not been paid. It could only be used for dishonoured items that reverse an earlier payment settlement.
- Message type
- MT256
- Category
- 2
- Status
- Retired
- ISO 20022
- No direct equivalent
What MT256 is used for
The MT256 appears in the 2010 standards but not in the list of category 2 message types of the November 2024 standard. Cheque messages still in use are the MT110, MT111 and MT112 in category 1.
Defined in the 2010 standards but no longer in the category 2 list of the November 2024 standard; the exact release that removed it was not verified.
- Sent by
- The bank that received the truncated cheques
- Sent to
- The bank that sent the cheque truncation messages
Fields
This is a catalogue entry: the field-by-field structure is not shown here because we publish structures only where we have checked them against public sources.
ISO 20022
No ISO 20022 equivalent is named for it in public migration material, since the type was removed before the migration.
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