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PMNT/ICHQ/CCHQ: Cheque cashed (issued)

A cheque you wrote, debited from your account when the payee cashed it.

PMNT/ICHQ/CCHQ at a glance
DomainPMNT Payments
FamilyICHQ Issued Cheques
Sub-familyCCHQ Cheque
DirectionDebit (money out): CdtDbtInd DBIT
MT940 type with the same meaningNCHK Cheques

What PMNT/ICHQ/CCHQ means

A bank transaction code classifies an entry in three levels, each narrower than the last. Read together, PMNT/ICHQ/CCHQ reads Payments › Issued Cheques › Cheque.

  • PMNT (Payments). Every movement of funds between parties, such as transfers, direct debits, cheques, cards and cash.
  • ICHQ (Issued Cheques). Cheques the account owner wrote, debited when cashed.
  • CCHQ (Cheque).

Where it sits in a camt.053

The code is in each entry’s BkTxCd/Domn block, the same way in camt.052, camt.053 and camt.054 and in every version from .001.02 to .001.13:

camt.053.001.08 · an entry
<Ntry>
  <Amt Ccy="EUR">1250.00</Amt>
  <CdtDbtInd>DBIT</CdtDbtInd>
  <Sts><Cd>BOOK</Cd></Sts>
  <BkTxCd>
    <Domn>
      <Cd>PMNT</Cd>
      <Fmly>
        <Cd>ICHQ</Cd>
        <SubFmlyCd>CCHQ</SubFmlyCd>
      </Fmly>
    </Domn>
  </BkTxCd>
  …
</Ntry>

Banks may add their own code in BkTxCd/Prtry, next to the ISO code or instead of it (a German bank’s three-digit business transaction code, for example). Prefer the ISO code for rules that should work across banks.

What the entry carries

Match on the cheque number (TxDtls/Refs/ChqNb) against your cheque register; the debit date is when the cheque cleared, not when you wrote it.

In an MT940

An MT940 has no ISO code: each :61: statement line carries a three-letter transaction type after an identification letter. The one with the same meaning is NCHK (Cheques). It is coarser than the ISO code, so several ISO codes share it.

The MT940 Viewer converts MT940 to camt.053, and keeps the :61: type as a proprietary code (BkTxCd/Prtry, issuer SWIFT) rather than guessing an ISO code. All the types are in the MT940 transaction type codes.

Look up PMNT/ICHQ/CCHQ from a script or an AI agent

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REST · curl
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