ISO 20022 · Cancellation reason

NFNANever Forward To Next Agent

Registered in sourceSource release: August 2026 (v3)

Published definition

To complement a cancellation request, instructing the market infrastructure that the request for cancelation should not be forwarded to the next agent in the payment transaction chain.

Additional source information

The use of this code requires agreement between the banks and the market infrastructure (MI) because implementing the desired behaviour at the MI level requires development.

Code set and usage

Cancellation reason contains 33 registered codes. Its exact identifier is ExternalCancellationReason1Code.

Specifies the cancellation reason, as published in an external cancellation reason code set. External code sets can be downloaded from www.iso20022.org.

Use the code with the applicable message version and implementation guide. A matching code value alone does not establish the same meaning in another set.

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