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From 9 May 2022, ANZ is enhancing the information you receive for international payments received into your ANZ Foreign Currency Accounts.  

What is changing?

ANZ will be enhancing the information contained in the following fields:

• Bank Reference: this field will change from using a generic reference, ‘Telex / Airmail’, to the Senders Reference contained in Field 20 of the incoming SWIFT MT103 payment message
• Narrative: this field will include more consistent and meaningful transaction information taken from various fields within the SWIFT MT103 payment message, including clear ‘FROM’ (Field 50) and ‘FOR’ (Field 70) references

This enhanced information will be available in statement files received from ANZ Fileactive or when viewing and downloading transaction details in ANZ Transactive - Global. Details of the related fields for each Account Statement file type are available in the following table:

Report Format	Enhancement	Field No	Field Name/Description
BAI	Bank Reference	Transaction Detail Record (16), Field 5	Bank Reference Number
	Narrative	Transaction Detail Record (16), Field 7	Text
Statement Files	Bank Reference	Statement Transaction, Field 9	Reference
	Narrative	Statement Transaction, Field 11	Narrative
SAP/Multicash	Bank Reference	Transaction File, Fields 10 and 17	10: Cheque Number\Note to Payee 2 17: Note to Payee 2
	Narrative	Transaction File, Fields 18 - 23	Note to Payee 3 - Note to Payee 8
MT940	Bank Reference	:61	Statement Line [//16x]
	Narrative	:86	Information to Account Owner
CSV	Bank Reference	Column M	Bank Reference
	Narrative	Column N	Narrative
XLSX	Bank Reference	Column P	Bank Reference
	Narrative	Column Q	Narrative
PDF	Bank Reference	n/a	Bank Reference
	Narrative	n/a	Narrative
CAMT	Bank Reference	EntryReference XML Element: <Stmt> <Ntry> <NtryRef>	Bank Reference Number
	Narrative	AdditionalEntryInfo XML Element: <Stmt> <Ntry> < AddtlNtryInf >	Text

How will this change benefit you?

Having ready access to this data should make it easier to identify who has paid you and for what purpose, enhancing reconciliation activities.

What do you need to do to receive this improved information?

From 9 May 2022, this improved data will automatically be applied to all inward international payments received into an ANZ Foreign Currency Account in ANZ Fileactive and ANZ Transactive – Global. 

If you import this information into an external Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system or accounting software, then changes may need to be made in those systems to accept the updated data.