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A bank’s SWIFT code is an eight- or 11-digit code with four components: Bank code: Four letters that represent an abbreviated version of the financial institution’s name
The applicant is the person or company who has requested the letter of credit to be issued; this will normally be the buyer. The beneficiary is the person or company who will be paid under the letter of credit; this will normally be the seller (UCP600 Article 2 defines the beneficiary as "the party in whose favour a credit is issued").
A credit issued by SWIFT MT700 is no longer subject by default to the current UCP; it has to be indicated in field 40E, which is designated for specifying the "applicable rules". Where a credit is issued subject to UCP 600, the credit will be interpreted in accordance with the entire set of 39 articles contained in UCP 600.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), legally S.W.I.F.T. SC, is a cooperative established in 1973 in Belgium (French: Société Coopérative) and owned by the banks and other member firms that use its service. SWIFT provides the main messaging network through which international payments are initiated. [2]
A bank’s SWIFT code is an eight- or 11-digit code with four components: Bank code: Four letters that represent an abbreviated version of the financial institution’s name
The previous edition is ISO 9362:2009 (dated 2009-10-01). The SWIFT code is 8 or 11 characters, made up of: 4 letters: institution code or bank code. 2 letters: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (exceptionally, SWIFT has assigned the code XK to Republic of Kosovo, which does not have an ISO 3166-1 country code) 2 letters or digits: location code
MT202 COV is a specific SWIFT message type used on the SWIFT network for financial institution (FI) funds transfer between financial institutions. History [ edit ]
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