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Meldungen Handbook for payments via SWIFT

B.1.6 Value date fields

A participant prescribes a value date (SWIFT 32A) for outgoing payments; the
SIC/euroSIC system, on the other hand, uses the "Target value date" 2 and
"Settlement date" 3 fields.
The contents of these fields may be different, for details please see the SIC/euroSIC
User Manual, section B1, paragraph "Setting the settlement date".
When a settled payment is being delivered to the beneficiary bank, the following
therefore applies to all SWIFT messages:
Field Comment/content
User Header in FIN, The settlement date and settlement time are shown using the
Message User following code words:
Reference; Feld 108 Settlement date = Code “A“ plus date in the form (YYMMDD)
(Optional Message Settlement time = Code “T“ plus time in the form (HHMMSS)
User Reference)
32A The required value date from the original message is transferred into
SWIFT field 32A.

B.1.7 MT202COV/B12 (cover payments)

Banks can send cover payments via SWIFT MT202COV/B12 to SIC and euroSIC.
These messages are also sent out as MT202COV/B12 to those banks that are con-
nected via SWIFT. For SIC/euroSIC Interface banks, they are sent out as MT B12
"Extended covering funds (cover payment)" (see also SIC/euroSIC User Manual).

2
SIC field 16; the value date required by the sender bank
3
SIC field 92A; the clearing day on which the transaction was actually settled
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