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ISO 20022 Certified Associate (ICA)

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The certification that validates your understanding of the ISO 20022 standard for financial messaging: its modeling methodology, XML syntax, the main payment and cash management messages, and the structured data requirements now demanded by SWIFT and payment market infrastructures. SWIFT cross-border payments (CBPR+) and most real-time gross settlement systems (TARGET2, CHAPS, Fedwire and many in Latin America) already run on ISO 20022. The ISO 20022 Certified Associate understands how a message is modeled and structured, reads and interprets pain, pacs and camt messages, follows a payment end to end and recognizes the value of structured data for reconciliation, compliance and analytics.

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Description

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Exam Details

  • Exam Name: ISO 20022 Certified Associate (ICA)
  • Exam Format: Multiple choice, online with remote supervision (proctoring)
  • Exam Delivery: Safe Exam Browser
  • Number of Questions: 50 questions: 60% applied cases / 40% conceptual
  • Exam Duration: 60 minutes
  • Passing Score: 70% (35 out of 50 correct answers)
  • Available Languages: Spanish / English
  • Attempts: Maximum 2 attempts (minimum 15 days between attempts)
  • Validity: 3 years · 10 CPD credits per year

Main Subjects

  • ISO 20022 fundamentals and governance (12%): Purpose and parts 1 to 8 of the series; Registration Authority and Registration Management Group; Standards Evaluation Groups (SEG); Business areas: payments, securities, trade, cards and FX; External code sets.
  • Modeling methodology and repository (14%): Data Dictionary and Business Process Catalogue; Business and message components; Data types and validation rules; Business, logical and physical models; Variants and usage guidelines.
  • XML syntax, versions and validation (16%): XSD schemas and namespaces; Message identification: area.number.variant.version; Business Application Header (head.001); Schema validation versus usage rules; Alternative syntaxes: ASN.1 and JSON.
  • Payment messages: pain and pacs (24%): Customer initiation: pain.001 and pain.002; Direct debits: pain.008; Interbank: pacs.008, pacs.009 and pacs.009 COV; Returns and status: pacs.004 and pacs.002; Payment chain, agents and UETR.
  • Cash management and reporting: camt (16%): Reports and statements: camt.052 and camt.053; Notifications: camt.054; Cancellations and investigations: camt.056 and camt.029; Remittance information and automated reconciliation.
  • Data quality, migration and compliance (18%): Structured and hybrid addresses; LEI, BIC, purpose and category codes; CBPR+, HVPS+ and CPMI harmonized requirements; MT/MX coexistence and truncation risk; Sanctions screening and payment transparency (FATF R.16).

Who is this certification for?

  • Operations and payments analysts: Who process, repair or investigate payments in ISO 20022 format.
  • Corporate treasury professionals: Who send pain.001 orders and reconcile with camt.053 and camt.054.
  • Business analysts and consultants: Who take part in MT to ISO 20022 migration projects.
  • Developers and integrators: Who build or validate interfaces with financial XML messages.
  • Compliance and risk teams: Who leverage structured data for payment screening and transparency.

Prerequisites

No mandatory prerequisites: no prior experience, training or certification is required. Registration is direct with CertJoin or through an authorized partner. Recommended (not mandatory): basic knowledge of banking operations, payments or treasury, and basic XML reading.

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