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pain.001 and pain.002 in Depth

D04 Messaging and standards · 7 lessons

Version 1.0 | Last reviewed 2026-11-05

Learner explains pain.001 and pain.002 in depth, describes the relay scenario, authorised party initiation, and financial institution initiation, and traces a payment to pacs.008. Learner uses real amounts, banks and message names to show how customer initiation works in practice.

pain.001 and pain.002 in depth: from customer instruction to status report.

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Learning objective. Learner explains pain.001 and pain.002 in depth, describes the relay scenario, authorised party initiation, and financial institution initiation, and traces a payment to pacs.008. Learner uses real amounts, banks and message names to show how customer initiation works in practice.

Practical assessment. Learner receives a case where a corporation in Rotterdam must pay EUR 750,000 to a supplier in Vienna through a relay bank, then drafts the pain.001 file, the relay forwarding steps, the pacs.008 creation, and the pain.002 reports at each stage, including a rejection case with reason code AC01. Learner also explains authorised party initiation and financial institution initiation in a short comparison note.

Expected deliverables.

Completion criterion. Learner drafts a correct pain.001 and pain.002 set for the EUR 750,000 relay payment, explains each status report, and handles the AC01 rejection correctly. and the comparison note is clear and accurate.

In this chapter
  1. pain.001.001.09 Customer Credit Transfer Initiation: What It Is and What It Carries
  2. pain.002.001.10 Customer Payment Status Report: Statuses and Reason Codes
  3. How pain.001 Initiates pacs.008, Step by Step
  4. pain.001 in Customer-to-Bank Space
  5. pain.001 in Bank-to-Bank Space: the Relay Scenario (Bank A forwards pain.001 to the Debtor Agent)
  6. Authorised Party Initiation and Financial Institution Payment Initiation
  7. Worked Example: A Corporation Sends pain.001 Through a Relay to Pay EUR 750,000, with the pain.002 status reports at each step

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