Category 8: Travellers cheques
MT899 Free Format Message
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MT899 is the category 8 Free Format Message. Banks use it for correspondence about travellers cheques business that no structured message covers, written as free text with a reference and an optional related reference.
- Message type
- MT899
- Category
- 8
- Status
- In the current standard
- ISO 20022
- No direct equivalent
What MT899 is used for
The layout is the same as in the other categories (categories 4 and 7 have their own versions, see MT499 and MT799). See the generic page MTn99 for the fields, an example and the risks of instructing by free format.
- Sent by
- Any bank
- Sent to
- Any bank
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 MT899 into the parser to see each field decoded with its tag, name and value.
ISO 20022
There is no ISO 20022 equivalent for free-format correspondence in general use.
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