ISO 20022
Introduction to ISO 20022 –
Universal financial industry
message scheme
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Agenda
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ISO 20022:
– Value proposition
– The standard
– The actors
– The registration process
– The Repository
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ISO 20022 registration platform
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Cross industry harmonisation
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Interoperability within the financial industry
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Q&A
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The ISO 20022 value proposition (1/5)
Objective
To enable communication interoperability
between financial institutions , their market
infrastructures and their end-user communities
Major obstacle
Numerous overlapping standardization initiatives
looking at XML financial messages:
MDDL, FIX, FinXML, VRXML, RIXML, XBRL, FpML, IFX, TWIST,
SWIFT, RosettaNet, EPC, OAGi, ACORD, etc.
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The ISO 20022 value proposition (2/5)
Proposed solution
A single standardisation approach (methodology,
process, repository) to be used by all financial
standards initiatives
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The ISO 20022 value proposition (3/5)
Convergence into ONE standard is the long term
objective…
… but in the interim several standards need to
coexist to enable quick response to competitive
pressures and regulatory demands
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The ISO 20022 value proposition (4/5)
Growth adds exponential complexity and expense…
EDIFACT
IFX
OAGi
TWIST
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RosettaNet
Without common building
blocks:
• Point-to-point connection
SWIFT
• Data is mapped directly from
one application to another
Proprietary • Costly, unscalable and
difficult to implement and
format
maintain
• Process, routing, rules logic
needs to be coded to specific
message types
42 interfaces = n * (n-1)
Source: John Mersberg, IBM Corporation
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The ISO 20022 value proposition (5/5)
Standardized implementation reduces cost, time to effect
change and improves overall performance…
EDIFACT
IFX
OAGi
TWIST
Canonical
Message Model
(i.e. ISO 20022)
RosettaNet
Canonical message model =
• True process integration
SWIFT
• Reduced brittleness, faster to
respond to change
Proprietary • Shared message services –
format
single/shared parser, message
independent rules engine, etc.
• Unified monitoring / audit trail
14 interfaces = n * 2
ISO aims at long term convergence,
while facilitating short term coexistence…
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ISO 20022
Illustrating business modelling
All institutions have
their own sets of
data objects
ISO standardizes common
data objects…
…and groups them into ‘syntaxneutral’ message models, which...
… can be ‘transformed’ in
message formats in the
desired syntax
ASN.1
XML
ISO 15022
FIX
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The ISO 20022 recipe
Main ingredients (1/2):
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Modelling-based standards development
– Syntax-independent business standard
– Validated by the industry
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Syntax-specific design rules for XML and ASN.1
– Predictable and ‘automatable’
– Protect standard from technology evolution
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Reverse engineering approach
– Protect industry investment and ease interoperability
– Prepare for future migration
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The ISO 20022 recipe
Main ingredients (2/2):
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Development / registration process
– Clearly identified activities and roles
– Business experts and future users involved upfront
– Technical experts involved when required
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Repository on the ISO 20022 website
– Business Process Catalogue & Data Dictionary
– Outside of official standard (maintained by registration
bodies)
www.iso20022.org
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The eight parts of ISO 20022
Part 1: Metamodel
Part 2: UML profile
Part 3: Modelling
Part 4: XML schema generation
Part 5: Reverse engineering
Part 6: Message transport characteristics
Part 7: Registration
Part 8: ASN.1 generation
Copies can be obtained from www.iso.org
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ISO 20022: The actors (1/2)
Submitting organisations
Communities of users or organisations that want to develop ISO
20022 compliant messages to support their financial transactions
Could be
ANBIMA
ASF
Banco de España
Bank of England
Banque de France
Berlin Group
BIAN
CBI Consortium
CFETS
CFTC
China UnionPay
Clearstream
CLS
Danish Bankers Association
Deutsche Bundesbank
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DTCC
Early Warning Services
EPC
ESMA
Euroclear
European Central Bank
FED
FFI
FISD
FPL
FpML
IFX Forum
ISITC
nexo A.I.S.B.L.
OAGi
Omgeo
Payments UK
PBOC
RU-CMPG
SABS
SPRING
SWIFT
Target
TC68/SC7/TG1
Tieto Corporation
TWIST
T2S
UN/CEFACT
etc.
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ISO 20022: The actors (2/2)
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Registration Management Group, RMG
–
Overall governance, court of appeal
–
Approve business justifications for new message standards
–
Approve new member entities
–
Create Standard Evaluation Groups (SEGs) and SubSEGs
Standards Evaluation Groups, SEGs and SubSEGs
–
Represent future users in specific financial areas
–
Validate new candidate messages and change requests
Registration Authority, RA
–
Ensure compliance
–
Maintain and publish ISO 20022 Repository
Technical Support Group, TSG
–
Assist RMG, SEGs, RA and submitting organisations
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ISO 20022
The registration process (1/3)
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Submitting
organisation
Financial industry group or standards body
Business
justification
Business justification
RMG
Submitting
organisation
& RA
SEG
RA
Submitting
organisation
& users
Project approval & allocation to a SEG
Development & provisional registration
Business validation
Official registration
and publication
Optional pilot testing
or first implementers
Repository
Dictionary
Catalogue
www.iso20022.org
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ISO 20022
The registration process (2/3)
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Submitting
organisation
Financial industry group or standards body
Business
justification
Business justification
RMG
Submitting
organisation
& RA
SEG
RA
Submitting
organisation
& users
Project approval & allocation to a SEG
Candidate ISO 20022 messages
Development & provisional registration
Business validation
ISO 20022 messages
Official registration
and publication
Optional pilot testing
or first implementers
Repository
Dictionary
Catalogue
www.iso20022.org
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ISO 20022 registration process (3/3)
Yearly maintenance process
Timing
By June 1
By July 7
By August 21
By October 1
By December 1
By February 1
By April-May
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Users CRs
SEG
Submitting
organisation
SEG
Submitting
organisation
& RA
SEG
RA
Submitting
organisation
& users
Users introduce Change Requests to the RA
SEG screens Change Requests (CRs)
Submitting organisation prepares ‘Maintenance
Change Request’ with each CR implementation
SEG approval/rejection
Development of candidate new versions
Provisional publication
Validation of new versions
Registration and publication
First implementers
Repository
Dictionary
Catalogue
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ISO 20022 - The Financial Repository
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Data Dictionary
– Business Concepts
– Message Concepts
– Data Types
 Business
Process Catalogue
– Financial business process models
– Financial business transactions, including messages
– XML or ASN.1 message schemas
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Continuing with today’s agenda…
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ISO 20022 Registration Platform
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ISO 20022 - The Deployment
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Approval of the international standard 
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Selection of the Registration Authority and set-up of the
www.iso20022.org 
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Creation of Registration Management Group
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Creation of Standards Evaluation Groups 
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Registration and publication of first ‘ISO 20022 messages’ 
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Approval of a new edition of the international standard 
Ongoing: promotion to developers (standardizers, industry bodies)
and users (market infrastructures, end-users, vendors)
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ISO 20022
Registration Management Group (RMG)
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Members - 71 senior managers from:
– 21 countries: AT, AU, BR, CA, CH, CN, DE, DK, FI, FR, GB,
IN, IT, JP, KR, NL, NO, SE, SG, US, ZA.
– 14 organisations: ACTUS, CFTC, Clearstream, DTCC, ECB,
EPC, Euroclear, FPL, FpML, IFX, ISITC, MasterCard, SWIFT,
VISA
Convener: James Whittle (GB); Vice-convener: Mike Tagai (JP);
Secretary: Tom Dunbar (GB)
Meetings: twice a year
Key decisions:
Creation of six SEGs: Payments and Securities in 2005, Trade
Services and Forex in 2006, Cards & Related Retail Financial
Services in 2008, Derivatives SubSEG in 2016
Approval of ISO 20022 message development projects
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ISO 20022 – The Payments SEG (1/3)
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Members – 59 experts
– 19 countries: AU, AT, BR, CA, CH, CN, DE, DK, FI, FR, GB, IT, JP, NL,
NO, SE, SG, US, ZA
– 6 organisations: ECB, Euroclear, IFX, ISITC, MasterCard, SWIFT
Convener: Harri Rantanen (FI); Vice-convener: Peter Hoogervorst (SG);
Secretary: Aurelie Steeno, SWIFT
Approved: C2B payment initiation (SWIFT/ISTH), Interbank credit transfers
and direct debits (SWIFT, EPC), Exceptions and investigations (SWIFT), B2C
cash management (SWIFT/ISTH), Mandates (SWIFT, SABS) , Change/verify
account identification (GUF), Bank account management (SWIFT), Creditor
payment activation request (CBI Consortium), Cash account reporting
request and notification (SWIFT), Bank Services Billing (TWIST/SWIFT),
Authorities Financial Investigations (FFI), Stand-alone remittance advice
(IFX/OAGi), Cross-border Transactions Currency Control Reporting (RUCMPG)
Under evaluation: none
Next: Cash management (SWIFT), Account switching (Payments UK),
Payment Pre-Authorization (Early Warning Services), Proxy for Bank Account
Numbers (SPRING)
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ISO 20022 – The Payments SEG (2/3)
Covering instruments such as:
Payments
Covering actors such as:
Credit
transfers
Cheques
Direct
debits
Financial
institutions
Private &
corporate
customers
Clearing
houses &
RTG
systems
Central
banks
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ISO 20022 – The Payments SEG (3/3)
Including business areas such as:
Clearing & settlement
Payment initiation
Communications
between the
ordering
customer and its
bank, etc.
Payments
Interbank
transfers via
correspondent
banking or
ACHs, high
value payments,
low value bulk
payments,
RTGS, etc.
Cash Management between various actors:
Account
opening,
standing orders,
transaction and
account
information,
advices &
statements from
…
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...the account
servicing
institutions to
account
owners,
including
reporting from
the financial
institution…
…to the
ordering &
beneficiary
customers,
reconciliation,
exceptions &
investigations
handling.
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ISO 20022 – The Securities SEG (1/3)
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Members – 73 experts
– 16 countries: BR, CH, DE, DK, FI, FR, GB, IE, IT, JP, NL, NO, SE, SG,
US, ZA
– 9 organisations: ACTUS, CFTC, Clearstream, DTCC, ECB, Euroclear,
FPL, ISITC, SWIFT
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Convener: Axelle Wurmser (FR); Vice-convener: Charles-Raymond
Boniver, SWIFT; Secretary: Dominique Forceville, SWIFT
 Approved: Investment funds (SWIFT), Transaction regulatory reporting
(SWIFT), Proxy voting (SWIFT), Issuer’s agents communication (Euroclear),
Corporate actions (SWIFT), Settlement & reconciliation (SWIFT), Post-trade
(SWIFT/Omgeo), Total portfolio valuation report (ISITC,SWIFT), CCP
Clearing (FPL,SWIFT), Collateral Management (FPL, FpML, ISITC, SWIFT),
Money Market Statistical Reporting (ECB/3CB), Transparency of Holdings
(Clearstream), SSI for Securities, Payments & FX (ISITC, Omgeo, FPL),
Financial instruments and transactions regulatory reporting - MiFID II/MiFIR
(ESMA)
 Under evaluation: none
 Next: Target2-Securities (SWIFT/4CB), Securities Financing Transactions
Regulatory Reporting (ESMA), CCP Supervisory Reporting (BoE)
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ISO 20022 – The Securities SEG (2/3)
Covering instruments such as:
Securities
Covering actors such as:
Equities
Fixed
income
Funds
Service
bureaux
Investment
managers,
distributors,
transfer
agents, fund
administrators
Broker /
dealers
Custodians
Regulators
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Market
Data
Providers
Stock
exchanges,
ETC
providers
CSDs,
ICSDs
Clearing
houses,
CCPs
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ISO 20022 – The Securities SEG (3/3)
Including business areas such as:
Securities
Issuance
Trade
Initiation,
pretrade
Trade,
posttrade
Securities
Account
opening,
standing orders,
transaction and
account
information,
advices &
statements,
queries &
investigations
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Collateral management
Collateral,
repos,
securities
lending &
borrowing
Clearing
&
settlement
Custody
Income,
corporate
actions,
market data,
proxy voting
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Looking at the advantages ISO 20022
brings over ISO 15022
ISO 20022:
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Builds on the ISO 15022 data dictionary concept and registration
infrastructure, but strengthens the monitoring by the industry
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Uses a more robust, syntax independent development
methodology based on modelling of business processes and
transactions
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Uses XML or ASN.1 as the syntax for the actual physical
messages
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Has a wider scope than ISO 15022, which is only for securities
messages
Syntax independent business modelling
is key to the ISO 20022 standard !
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ISO 20022 – Derivatives SubSEG (1/3)
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Members – 53 experts
– 8 countries: BR, CA, CN, DK, FR, GB, JP, US
– 10 organisations: ACTUS, CFTC, Clearstream, DTCC, ECB,
Euroclear, FPL, ISDA/FpML, ISITC, SWIFT

Convener: Karel Engelen, ISDA/FpML; Vice-convener: Joe Halberstadt,
SWIFT; Secretary: Courtney McGuinn, FPL
 Approved: none
 Under evaluation: Financial instruments and transactions regulatory
reporting – Trade Repository Reporting (ESMA)
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ISO 20022 – Derivatives SubSEG (2/3)
Covering instruments such as:
Derivatives
Listed
Derivatives
OTC
Derivatives
Covering actors such as:
Investment
managers,
distributors,
transfer
agents, fund
administrators
Market
Infrastructures
Broker /
dealers
Custodians
Regulators
Market
Data
Providers
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Confirmation,
Execution
platforms
CSDs,
ICSDs
Clearing
houses,
CCPs
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ISO 20022 – Derivatives SubSEG (3/3)
Including business areas such as:
Trade, post-trade, including
post-trade events such as
novation, termination,
increase, amendment,
option events, and external
events such as index and
basket changes.
Initiation, pre-trade
including RFQ and
credit limit check,
clearing eligibility,
margin quote
Clearing
&
settlement
Derivatives
Collateral
management
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Regulatory
reporting
including
real-time and
snapshot
reporting
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ISO 20022 – The FX SEG (1/3)
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Members – 19 experts
– 8 countries: CA, CH, CN, FR, GB, NO, US, ZA
– 3 organisations: FPL, ISITC, SWIFT
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Convener: Ram Komarraju (US); Vice-convener: Zaiyue
Xu (CN); Secretary: Joe Halberstadt (SWIFT)
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Kick-off meeting: in September 2006

Approved: Forex notifications (CLS), Post Trade Foreign
Exchange Messages (CLS), FX Post-Trade Trade Capture
and FX Post-Trade Confirmation (CFETS)
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Under evaluation: none

Next: none
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ISO 20022 – The FX SEG (2/3)
Covering instruments such as:
Foreign eXchange
Trading
portals,
matching
services
providers
Covering actors such as:
Spot
Swaps
Forward
Investment
managers
Currency
Options
Custodians
Dealers
Money
brokers
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Hedge
funds
CLS and
CLS
settlement
members
Application
providers
Industry
associations
(ISDA)
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ISO 20022 – The FX SEG (3/3)
Including business areas such as:
Pretrade:
IOI,
quotes,
etc.
Trade:
order,
execution,
allocation,
affirmation,
etc.
Foreign eXchange
Notification
of trades to
third parties
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Trigger
events,
option
exercises
Post-trade:
confirmation,
matching,
assignment,
novation, etc.
Clearing and
Settlement,
including
netting and
related
reporting
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ISO 20022
The Trade Services SEG (1/3)
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Members – 25 experts
– 12 countries: CA, CH, DE, DK, FI, FR, GB, IS, IT, JP, NL,
US
– 1 organisation: SWIFT
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Convener: Tapani Turunen (FI) Vice-convener: Peter
Potgieser (NL); Secretary: David Dobbing (SWIFT)
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Kick-off meeting: in September 2006
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Approved: Invoice Financing Request (CBI Consortium), Trade
Services Management (SWIFT), Financial Invoice (UN/CEFACT
TBG5), Demand Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit
(SWIFT), Factoring Services (ASF), Invoice Tax Report (FFI &
Tieto)
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Under evaluation: none
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Next: none
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ISO 20022
The Trade Services SEG (2/3)
Covering products…
Trade Services
…and services such as:
Collection
Letter of
credit
Documentary
credit
Open
Account
Trading
Reconciliation
(A/R, A/P),
remittance data
e-Invoicing
Guarantee
EBPP
Purchase
order,
transport
documents
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Invoice
financing
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ISO 20022
The Trade Services SEG (3/3)
Including actors such as:
Private and
corporate
customers
(treasurers)
Financial
Institutions
Trade Services
Risk
management
entities
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Application
providers
Associations
providing rules
and master
agreements
(eg IFSA, ICC)
Trade facilitators:
chambers of
commerce, insurance
co, freight forwarders,
carriers, customs,
factoring co
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ISO 20022 – The Cards & Related Retail
Financial Services SEG (1/3)
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Members – 29 experts
– 15 countries: AT, CA, CH, CN, DE, DK, FI, FR, GB, JP, KR, NL,
SE, US, ZA
– 3 organisations: Mastercard, SWIFT, VISA
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Convener: William Vanobberghen (FR); Vice-convener: Ian Groves
(GB); Secretary: Reinhard Herwig (DE)
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Kick-off meeting: on 23-24 October 2008

Approved: CAPE – Acceptor to Acquirer and Terminal Management
(nexo), ATM interface for transaction processing and ATM management
(IFX Forum/nexo), Acquirer to Issuer Card Messages – version 1
(TC68/SC7/TG1)
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Under evaluation: none

Next: Payment Tokens Management Exchanges (nexo,TC68/SC7/TG1),
Acquirer to Issuer Card Messages – version 2 (TC68/SC7/TG1)
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ISO 20022 – The Cards & Related Retail
Financial Services SEG (2/3)
Covering instruments…
Cards and Retail
Debit card
…and actors such as:
Charge and
credit card
Card
holder
Prepaid
card
Hard- and
Software
providers
Acceptor
(merchant,
retailer)
Card issuer
Card
scheme
Acquirer
Intermediary
agent
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ISO 20022 – The Cards & Related Retail
Financial Services SEG (3/3)
Including business areas such as: Transactions between
Transactions
between
acquirers and
card issuers
ATM processes
such as
authorization,
processing, ATM
management
and inventory
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merchants and acquirers,
and cardholders and issuers
that support authorization,
clearing, reversal,
chargeback, dispute
processing, etc.
Similar messages
transacted on
internet or from
mobiles or other
personal devices
POI messages
for payments,
administrative
and device
related
services
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ISO 20022 – Technical Support Group
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Members – 29 experts
– 7 countries: BR, CN, CH, DK, GB, JP, KR
– 7 organisations: ACTUS, CFTC, DTCC, Euroclear,
FPL, ISITC, SWIFT
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Convener: Martin Walder (CH); Vice-convener: Anthony
Coates (GB); Secretary: Kris Ketels, SWIFT
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Kick-off meeting: on 23-24 October 2008

Mission: help RMG, RA, SEGs and Submitting
Organisations with technical matters
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Continuing with today’s agenda…
ISO 20022
Cross-industry harmonisation
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Harmonising across all industries
with UN/CEFACT
United Nations/CEFACT –
Centre for trade facilitation and e-business

Created in 1997 to improve world-wide co-ordination
of trade facilitation across all industries

Focusing on international standards for electronic
transactions (e.g., ebXML venture with OASIS)

Promoting technology neutral business modelling and
a central library of core components
Goal is to establish interoperability between ISO 20022 and
UN/CEFACT repositories
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Harmonisation between ISO and
UN/CEFACT
 2004: TC68, TBG5 and SWIFT sign a MoU to investigate
harmonisation
 2005: Trial submission from ISO 20022 to UN/CEFACT
 2006: ISO TC68/WG4 takes over technological alignment
 2007: Official submission from ISO 20022 to UN/CEFACT
 2008: Customer-to-bank payment components harmonised and
accepted in UN/CEFACT core component library
 2009: The cooperation is placed under the umbrella of the ‘MoU on eBusiness’
 2010: Official submission of a financial e-invoice message from
UN/CEFACT to ISO 20022
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Continuing with today’s agenda
ISO 20022
Interoperability within
the financial industry
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Using ISO 20022 modelling to reach
interoperability
All institutions have
their own sets of
data objects
ISO standardizes common
data objects…
…and groups them into ‘syntaxneutral’ message models, which...
… can be ‘transformed’ in
message formats in the
desired syntax
XML
ASN.1
FpML
FIX
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ISO 20022 compliance at model level
Repository
ISO 20022
Dictionary
Dictionary
Catalogue
ISO 20022
message
models
Card payments
Payments clearing
& settlement
physical
message
representation
ISO 20022 ASN.1 syntax
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ISO 20022 XML syntax
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ISO 20022 compliance at model level
Repository
ISO 20022
Dictionary
Dictionary
ISO 20022 compliant
Catalogue
ISO 20022
message
models
Card payments
Payments clearing
& settlement
physical
message
representation
other syntax
ISO 20022 compliant
‘using a domain specific syntax’
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ISO 20022 syntax
ISO 20022 compliant
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“Investment Roadmap”
for ISO, FIX, XBRL and FpML syntaxes
The Investment Roadmap is maintained by the Standards
Coordination Group including the following organisations:
Download the Investment Roadmap and related FAQ
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Interoperability in the customer-to-bank
payment domain
Bank A
IFX format
Proprietary format
Bank B
Customer A
SWIFT
MT 101
Bank C
Let us look at a concrete example from payments area:
a customer may need to adapt to the format of the banks…
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Interoperability in the customer-to-bank
payment domain
Customer A
IFX format
Proprietary format
Bank A
Customer B
SWIFT
MT 101
Customer C
…or banks may need to accept many formats…
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Interoperability in the customer-to-bank
payment domain
Proprietary
TWIST
ISO 20022
Core Payment
Kernel model
SWIFT MT
OAGi
IFX
The reverse engineering produces a canonical ISO 20022
message model
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Interoperability in the customer-to-bank
payment domain
Core
Payment
Kernel
IFX
IFX
Core
Payment
Kernel
Adopting ISO 20022 facilitates convergence and co-existence
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www.iso20022.org
uestions
&A
nswers
[email protected]
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