Standards MT Release 2009

Schedule for Standards MT Release 2009 (SR 2009)

4 December 2008 - The SWIFT Board approved a proposal to limit the changes for SR 2009 to categories 1, 2 and 9 and to technical changes. More details can be found in the timeline below.

The development and implementation schedule is as follows:

14 July 2008

High-Level Information on Standards MT Release 2009
Summary of (not approved) change requests received for SR 2009

Advance information on MT 202 COV and MT 205 COV
This change is already approved by country vote and ratified by the SWIFT Board. Some proposed changes to Standards MT Release 2009 may impact these two messages.

12 November 2008

Final High-Level Information on Standards MT Release 2009
Summary of approved change requests received for SR 2009

Updated Advance Information on MT 202 COV and MT 205 COV

4 December 2008 Board approves limited Standards MT Release 2009
To ease the burden of a full SR 2009, the SWIFT Board approved a proposal to limit the changes for SR 2009 to categories 1, 2 and 9 and to technical changes.

NOTE: Implementation of the MT 597, planned for SR 2009, is on hold for a future release. Release and date are still to be determined.

Changes to categories 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and n (Common Group), which were voted on and accepted during the annual country voting in October 2008, are held over for implementation in Standards Release 2010.

To clearly identify the changes to be implemented in each of the releases, two new high-level information documents are available:
19 December 2008 Standards MT Release Guide 2009 (SRG 2009)
Message Format Validation Rules 2009 (MFVR 2009)

Describes the changes to Standards MT messages effective as of 21 November 2009
20 February 2009 Updates for Standards MT Release Guide 2009
Updates for Message Format Validation Rules 2009

Updates to Standards MT Release Guide 2009 and Message Format Validation Rules 2009 published on 19 December 2008
2 May 2009 Vendor Test System
24 July 2009 UHB online
Final Message Format Validation Rules 2009 and Updates
25 July 2009 Test & Training System
21 November 2009 Standards MT Release 2009 Live


High-Level Information documentation

The two documents, High-Level Information on Standards MT Release 2009 and Final High-Level Information on Standards MT Release 2009, are out of date.
Please refer to the Revised SR 2009 High-Level information posted on 4 December 2008.

MT 202 COV and MT 205 COV information
Please refer to the Standards Release Guide 2009 for the latest information on these messages