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A Swift MT 198 is a type of message sent through the SWIFT systems (A network for delivering financial messages). MT = Message Type and the 198 falls into the category of messages that have no fixed format, but are usually used as an envelope to include another mesage inside. The contents of format of this message is not neccisarily support by swift and it will not validate this enveloped message, only the basic 198 message layout. The 1 of the 198 is decided by the two people that will be using it (sender and receiver) whereas the 98 indicates to swift that it is an envelope message. So you could get 198, 298, 389 etc messages. Boils down to this: its a free format messsage with very little validation done by swift. More infor on all types of swift messages here : http://www.iso15022.org/

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