Pacs Settlement method

The pacs messages introduce the Settlement Method element within the Group Header Settlement Information. Settlement refers to the Agent whose role is to act as an Account Servicing Institution i.e. owns the account and provides service to the customer (Account Owner). The Account Owner can be an Agent or another Party. Traditionally an interbank account relationship may have been referred to as a Nostro/Vostro relationship or an Agent’s account held on another Agent’s books/ another Agent’s account held on my books. Typically the commonality of this can be simplified to the Agent who provides the official Account statement is servicing … Continue reading Pacs Settlement method

Understand ISO20022 Business Roles and Participants

BusinessRoles and Participants A BusinessRole represents an entity (or a class of entities) of the real world, physical or legal, a person, a group of persons, a corporation. Examples of BusinessRoles: “Financial Institution”, “Automated Clearing House”, “Central Securities Depository”. A Participant is a functional role performed by a BusinessRole in a particular BusinessProcess or BusinessTransaction. Examples of Participants: the “user” of a system, “debtor”, “creditor”, “investor”. The relationship between BusinessRoles and Participants is many-to-many. One BusinessRole can be involved as different Participants at different moments in time or at the same time. Examples of BusinessRoles: “user”, “debtor”, “creditor”, “investor”. Different … Continue reading Understand ISO20022 Business Roles and Participants