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ISO 20022
Universal financial industry message scheme

Business Message Envelope

This section gives access to the description of the different versions of the ISO 20022 Business Message Envelope maintained by the ISO 20022 Technical Support Group and approved by the Cross SEG Harmonisation Group (CSH).

The Business Message Envelope is a technical message container used to bundle a business application header with a message definition, typically to support processing or transport. It may contain and define additional data elements that apply to the message instance container.

You can download the documentation (Message Definition Report and Message Usage Guide) and the XML schema of the Business Message Envelope hereunder.

DOCUMENTATION

CURRENT VERSION - V02

MDR and XML schema of the Business Message Envelope version 2, approved on 21 March 2025.

Related MUG for version 2 updates are currently in progress.

PREVIOUS VERSION - V01

MDR, MUG and XML schema of the Business Message Envelope version 1,  approved on 22 December 2022.

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