Xact via Swift: New MT380 Foreign Exchange Order

19.02.2025

Clearstream Banking1 informs clients that the MT380 Foreign Exchange Order will be available from

3 March 2025

The new MT380 Foreign Exchange Order should be used to request currency conversions in a standardised format.

Message example:

:16R:GENL
:20C::SEME//XXXXXXXXX
:20C::FXOR//XXXXXXXXX
:23G:NEWM
:16S:GENL
:16R:FXORDER
:22H::BUSE//BUYI
:98C::ORDR//YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
:98A::RVAL//YYYYMMDD
:19B::ORDR//CUR6323698,6
:11A::CNTR//EUR
:16R:ORDRPRTY
:95P::INVE//AAAABBCC
:97A::SAFE//XXXXX
:16S:ORDRPRTY
:16S:FXORDER

Clients are requested to use this formatted message rather than the free-format MT299.

Further information

The Xact via Swift User Guide and Client Handbooks will be updated accordingly. Please note that existing channels such as AutoFX, FXSecurities, and free-format messages will continue to be accepted and offered.

For further information, please contact Clearstream Banking Client Services.


1.  Clearstream Banking refers collectively to Clearstream Banking S.A., registered office at 42, avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, and registered with the Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register under number B-9248, and Clearstream Banking AG, registered office at Mergenthalerallee 61, 65760 Eschborn, Germany and registered in Register B of the Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany under number HRB 7500.