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ISO 20022 Academy
ISO 20022 Academy

Glossary

87 ISO 20022 and payments terms, explained in plain English.

  • Settlement
  • Clearing
  • Counterparty
  • Reconciliation
  • Liquidity
  • Creditor
  • Debtor
  • Cover Payment
  • Correspondent Banking
  • Nostro & Vostro
  • Credit Transfer
  • Direct Debit
  • Beneficiary
  • Originator
  • Value Date
  • Real-Time Payments
  • Payment Rail
  • Treasury
  • ISO 20022
  • MX
  • MT Format
  • Data Dictionary
  • Structured Address
  • Business Application Header
  • pain
  • pacs
  • camt
  • Message Definition
  • Message Identifier
  • Business Component
  • Message Component
  • Market Practice
  • Coexistence
  • ISO 20022 Migration
  • EndToEndId
  • IntrBkSttlmAmt
  • ChrgBr
  • Remittance Information
  • InstrId
  • CRDT/DBIT
  • Mandate
  • GrpHdr
  • PmtInf
  • CdtTrfTxInf
  • DbtrAgt
  • CdtrAgt
  • MsgId
  • NbOfTxs
  • CtrlSum
  • TxSts
  • Reason Code
  • IntrBkSttlmDt
  • SvcLvl
  • Purp
  • XML Schema
  • Namespace
  • Batch
  • Instruction
  • Check Digits
  • Well-Formed XML
  • Element
  • Attribute
  • Schema Validation
  • Parser
  • Mod-97 Checksum
  • Character Set
  • ISO 4217
  • ISO 3166
  • ISO 8601
  • UTF-8
  • IBAN
  • BIC/SWIFT Code
  • UETR
  • CBPR+
  • HVPS+
  • SWIFT
  • STP
  • RTGS
  • ACH
  • CSM
  • FI
  • PSP
  • LEI
  • MI
  • XSD
  • UUID
  • SEPA
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