International Wire Not Arrived? Paste Your UETR for Real-Time SWIFT Status — Free

Yes, you can. The sender of the SWIFT payment should request their bank to provide GPI tracking. If the bank is not part of the GPI network, you can ask for the payment reference number or better UETR and try tracking it here on Ohmyfin. Typically, you will find a payment status, such as ACSP (in process) or RJCT (rejected). You will also see the last update time, so you’ll know if someone at the bank is actively working on your transfer.

We retrieve real-time information on your behalf from several major banks and consolidate this data to provide you with a comprehensive overview of your payment status.

SWIFT payments typically take 1–3 business days to process. If the payment has not been received within this timeframe, it might be undergoing manual review. Due to heavy workloads, compliance officers may require up to two months to complete their review. To help expedite the process, the sender can request an investigation through their bank.

A SWIFT payment is sent with an MT103 form (or its ISO 20022 equivalent pacs.008). It includes field 20 — usually called the sender's reference — which maps to EndToEndId in pacs.008. Each bank in the chain assigns their own reference, so the UETR code is more universal. Read more about MT103 fields or pacs.008 ISO 20022.

A Unique End-to-End Transaction Reference (UETR) is a 36-character identifier included in all SWIFT payment instruction messages, formatted as XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX. It is found in MT103 field 121 and in the pacs.008 (ISO 20022) <UETR> tag. The sender can always request their bank to provide the UETR code for the SWIFT transfer. Read more about UETR in our SWIFT Knowledge Center.

In most cases, the payment is not lost but delayed at one of the banks. The most effective course of action is to request your bank to initiate a payment investigation after 2-3 weeks since the payment was sent. Typically, this can only be done by the sender. Read more about missing SWIFT payments.

The MT103 form (and its ISO 20022 successor pacs.008) contains all the data regarding your SWIFT transfer. The sender can ask their bank to provide either format. You can find not only the reference # / EndToEndId — which is useful for tracking — but also the value date, which is sometimes different from the actual date when you sent the money. Examples of MT103 / FIN103 / pacs.008 documents.

A reference # is assigned by each bank. UETR is universal. However, if you call your bank to ask for the status, it's almost impossible to communicate an UETR code accurately. The sender's reference will be much easier in this scenario.

The list of correspondent banks (nostro accounts) is part of SSI instructions. Sometimes they are published on the official bank's website. Banks normally find it via SWIFTref - a non-public database of correspondent relations. You can also order this information here at Ohmyfin. Database of correspondent relations. You can order it directly on the bank's page, for example: ABNANL2A - ABN AMRO, BPKOPLPW - PKO BANK POLSKI, CITIDEFF - Citibank Germany.