
The CBPR+ encompasses cross-border payments and correspondent banking activities covering all currencies, whereas the local market infrastructures relate to a single currency only (e.g. Consequently, customers can expect changes to the data they can send and receive over time. 1.3 Who will be impacted? 1.3 Who will be impacted? Every financial institution that currently sends/receives FIN MT-formatted payments will be impacted, either by SWIFT’s CBPR+ migration or by local market infrastructures.

This means that our transition will take place gradually, similar to elsewhere in the financial industry. In Danske Bank, we follow the deadlines set by the market infrastructures and will migrate accordingly, so we will send/receive payments in ISO-format when required. The below figure shows a high-level view of the most important deadlines from a Danske Bank-perspective. 1.2 When will ISO 20022 be implemented? 1.2 When will ISO 20022 be implemented? The industry is moving to ISO 20022 gradually with some market infrastructures going live in March 2023 and others in 2025 and beyond.This allows for improved reconciliation-processes and a higher degree of automation throughout the payments eco-system, which in turn offers opportunities for using the better data for insights and analytics.

The ISO 20022-standard can hold much more information about the payment than we know from the current MT-format, while at the same time providing a far more granular structuring of the data.
