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- Update your vendor data
If your payment counterparty data records do not currently include the Town Name and Country Code for these parties, please prioritise reaching out to your payees and begin collecting this information as soon as possible.
Timely action is essential to ensure compliance with the upcoming requirements and to avoid any disruption to your payment processing. Ensure that all payment counterparty data management processes are well established with necessary controls and the updated information will be available at all your payment processing systems. In case the town name and country code data is not at all available as separate fields in your master vendor data entries, please contact your system vendor and consult how to get the data fields available before November 2026.
- Review payment and direct debit initiation file generation
If not already done, update your payment initiation systems (ERP, TMS, host-to-host formats) to support ISO 20022 messaging with structured or hybrid postal address fields. Examples include XML pain.001 and pain.008 formats that support mandatory town and country fields.
I. Review and assess your existing payment initiation systems and data formats, including legacy formats such as MT101 or proprietary files.
II. If you are not already doing so, prepare to support the hybrid or fully structured postal address format by November 2026.
III. Ensure that, all postal addresses, provided for the:
– Debtor (this information is typically provided by the Debtor Agent based on data captured during customer onboarding/KYC)
– CreditorUltimate Debtor/Creditor (if applicable)
–And related agents (usually the banks), if no Agent BIC is available, are submitted using either the fully structured or hybrid format.
IV. Whether using the fully structured or hybrid format, you must anyway provide at least a structured Town Name and a structured Country Code (ISO 3166-1 2-letter format) for each party address
V. If you are still using MT messages or other non-ISO 20022 communication protocols, please ensure that address data includes Town Name and Country as structured elements, even when submitted via semi-structured fields.
Example using the MT101 Field 59 (F-option) format for a hybrid postal address:
:59F:/BE30001216371411
1/JOHN SMITH
2/HOOGSTRAAT 6, 18TH FLOOR
3/BE/BRUSSELS, 1000
Where:
1/= Name (JOHN SMITH)
2/=Address Line (HOOGSTRAAT 6, 18TH FLOOR)
3/=Country Code (BE), Town Name (BRUSSELS), and Postal Code (1000)
Attention:
For pain.001 version 3 and version 9, the fully unstructured postal address option allows up to 7 lines of Address Line (AdrLine), providing flexibility for complex addresses. However, when using the hybrid postal address format, only 2 lines of AdrLine are permitted. Please ensure your systems and data mapping reflect this limitation to avoid processing issues.