What is swift mt202?

An MT202 is a bank-to-bank funds transfer, or payment used in the SWIFT messaging system. The daily volume of MT202 payments passing through the global banking system is enormous and the dollar amounts are high in the billions. The main use of an MT202 is for two banks paying to cover a foreign exchange trade they agreed to. One bank pays in,for instance, dollars, the other pays in the other currency traded, say Euros. Non-banks do not send payments via the MT202 format.