This message type is sent by one financial institution to another financial institution.
It is used to respond to an MT n95 Queries or MT n92 Request for Cancellation and other messages where no specific message type has been provided for the response. This message should use the same category digit as the related queries message or request for cancellation.
| Status | Tag | Field Name | Content/Options | No. |
| M | 20 | Transaction Reference Number | 16x | 1 |
| M | 21 | Related Reference | 16x | 2 |
| M | 76 | Answers | 6*35x | 3 |
| O | 77A | Narrative | 20*35x | 4 |
| O | 11a | MT and Date of the Original Message | R or S | 5 |
| O | 79 | Narrative Description of the Original Message to Which the Answer Relates | 35*50x | 6 |
| O | Copy of at least the Mandatory Fields of the Original Message | Copy of fields | 7 | |
C1. Either field 79 or a 'Copy of at least the mandatory fields of the message to which the answer relates', but not both, may be present in the message .
The content of field 20 Transaction Reference Number of the related MT n95 Queries or MT n92 Request for Cancellation must always be quoted.
The use of the MT n96 in association with the MT 105 and MT 106 EDIFACT Envelope must be in accordance with the specific guidelines detailed in the appropriate volume of the EDIFACT Message Implementation Guides (MIGs).
The message to which the MT n96 Answers is related may be quoted in part or in full.
The MT 296 must be used in the cheque truncation environment in answering an MT 295 previously received.
An MT 596 must not be used to respond to a cancellation request of any ISO 15022 compliant message. An ISO 15022 compliant status message should be used instead, ie, an MT 509, 548, 567 or 589. In these messages, field 23G, subfield Function, should contain the code CAST (Cancellation Request Status) (see also Standards Category 5 volumes).