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ISO 20022: a series of standards for Interbank communication in financial services
- a modelling methodology to capture in a syntax-independent way financial business areas, business transactions and associated message flows;
a central dictionary of business items used in financial communications;
a set of XML and ASN.1 design rules to convert the message models into XML or ASN.1 schemas, whenever the use of the ISO 20022 XML or ASN.1-based syntax is preferred.
The ISO 20022 multi-part standard table of contents
The ISO 20022 series is made up of the following chapters:
📘 Part 2: UML profile
📘 Part 3: Modelling
📘 Part 4: XML Schema generation
📘 Part 5: Reverse engineering
📘 Part 6: Message transport characteristics
📘 Part 7: Registration
📘 Part 8: ASN.1 Generation
The ISO 20022-1 standard: Part 1 about Metamodel
In the ISO-20022-1:2013 «Financial services – Universal financial industry message scheme – part 1» we find a global description of the model:
✅ 5. Metamodel packages
✅ 6. Repository
✅ 7. Registration
✅ 8. Repository access
✅ Annex A – Type Library
✅ Annex B – Metamodel
To better figure out the «big picture» about what we just described in these last lines, we can bring as usual our infographic:
