Category 5: Securities markets
MT538 Statement of Intra-Position Advices
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The MT538 is sent by an account servicer to the account owner or its agent to list the increases and decreases of securities between sub-balances that took place during a period, for all or selected securities in a safekeeping account. It can answer an MT549 request and can also state that there were no such movements.
- Message type
- MT538
- Category
- 5
- Status
- In the current standard
What MT538 is used for
Where the MT508 confirms one intra-position movement at a time, the MT538 is the period view of the same events, much as the MT536 is the period view of settled deliveries and receipts. Use it to reconcile sub-balance changes such as blocking and unblocking against the instructions you sent with the MT524. See how to read a custody statement.
- Sent by
- The account servicer (custodian or sub-custodian)
- Sent to
- The account owner or its designated agent
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 MT538 into the parser to see each field decoded with its tag, name and value.
MT538 in ISO 20022
Swift’s equivalence tables map the MT538 to semt.016 (intra-position movement posting report), with semt.020 for the cancellation advice.
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