Category 4: Collections and cash letters
MT496 Answers
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MT496 is the category 4 Answers message. It responds to an MT495 query or an MT492 cancellation request, or to another message that has no answer message of its own, quoting the reference of the message it answers.
- Message type
- MT496
- Category
- 4
- Status
- In the current standard
- ISO 20022
- No direct equivalent
What MT496 is used for
The layout is the same in every category. See the generic page MTn96 for the fields, the answer codes and an example, and MT196 for the customer payment version.
- Sent by
- The bank answering
- Sent to
- The bank that asked
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. Paste an MT496 into the parser to see each field decoded with its tag, name and value.
ISO 20022
There is no ISO 20022 equivalent for this category’s version in general use.
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