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What is ISO 20022 in a nutshell?
ISO 20022 is the emerging global standard for payments messaging. It creates a common language and model for payments data across the globe, which provides higher-quality payment information than other standards and adapts to new needs and approaches.
Many Market Infrastructures, including SWIFT, are moving their messages to ISO 20022 over the next 2 years. Clearing House Automated Payment System (CHAPS) and TARGET2 Euro payment (T2) are on track for delivery, plus SWIFT will adopt the rulebook of the Cross-Border Payments Reporting (CBPR+) working group, where there will be a coexistence phase of MT/MX messages up until 2025. Within five years, it’s predicted that around 80% of high-value global payments by volume and 90% by value will have migrated to ISO 20022.
What are some of the biggest challenges companies may face in postponing the migration to ISO 20022?
The challenges will be multiple and grow with time. Until you are ISO 20022 Native, you will need to manage translation, enrichment, and a co-existence of standards with counterparties and across your back-office systems. It will increasingly be difficult to manage the data required in ISO 20022 in the legacy standards.
What are some of the benefits of having a unified payments language?
How can resources be put to better use? Should a company look at migrating to ISO 20022?
How long would it take to complete the change in process and how costly would this be to companies?
A simple connectivity upgrade can be completed at a relatively low cost and over a few months. However, it is the wider impact of ISO 20022 that needs to be considered. Payment, Screening, Matching, and Monitoring Systems need to be able to support ISO 20022 and the additional data elements and increased structure and granularity. This will require upgrades, development, and project work to improve static data. This work will vary enormously by institution.
How would ISO 20022 make it easier for banks to be compliant?
Data will be more extensive and structured. This will allow for greater accuracy and more relevant information to be passed with transactions. Allowing banks to ensure better compliance through more comprehensive and accurate monitoring.
Are there any drawbacks to ISO 20022?
Technically there is more data to hold, process, and exchange. As a standard, it is more flexible and allows for more data to be exchanged. Market Practice will be key to ensuring that there is consistency in what is expected for transactions in each market. Along with global alignment through such groups as HVCS and CBPR.
How long will it take for everyone to change to it? / Will there ever be a time when everyone has migrated to it?
Most institutions will be technically ready to receive ISO 20022 in 2023, but many will still be processing in the legacy standards. We will then have a multi-year period of co-existence as markets and participants move over to using ISO 20022. We may see a slow take-up in the beginning and then a snowball effect as main markets and players start to send and ask to receive ISO 20022.
Starting to use ISO 20022 is not the end of the journey. Once participants are familiar with the standard, this will then be the catalyst for the introduction of more structured information. This will then be the beginning of the real benefits of adopting ISO 20022.
“As a satisfied customer, we were confident that by partnering with Bottomline on the message transformation project, we would achieve our primary objective of being able to comply with the ISO 20022 messaging standards within the deadlines set by the BSP. Choosing Bottomline to work with on this project was simply a given.”
Rodel Garcia, Head of the Fund Transfer Department at EastWest Bank
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