SettlCurrency (FIX tag 120)

CurrencyFIX 4.4FIX 4.2FIX 5.0 SP2

SettlCurrency (tag 120) is a Currency field defined in FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2 and FIX 5.0 SP2. It appears in 12 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 120
Name: SettlCurrency
Datatype: Currency (String)
Dialects: FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2 and FIX 5.0 SP2
Messages: 12

What the specification says

Currency code of settlement denomination.

Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.

A real message using tag 120

NewOrderSingle · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	119
35	MsgType	D	Order – Single
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
11	ClOrdID	ORD-10042
54	Side	1	Buy
60	TransactTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
40	OrdType	1	Market
120	SettlCurrency	EUR
10	CheckSum	181

Edit and decode it yourself

Shown with | separators for readability. On the wire FIX uses SOH (0x01), an invisible control byte — and because BodyLength and CheckSum are computed over the actual bytes, the two forms have different checksums. Both are valid and both decode here.

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Where tag 120 appears

Requiredness is a property of the message, not of the field: the same tag can be optional in one message and conditionally required in another.

Message	MsgType	FIX 4.4	FIX 4.2	FIX 5.0 SP2	Where in the message
AllocationInstruction	J	Conditional	Optional	Optional	inside the AllocGrp component
AllocationInstructionAlert	BM	—	—	Optional	inside the AllocGrp component
AllocationReport	AS	Conditional	—	Optional	inside the AllocGrp component
Confirmation	AK	Optional	—	Optional	directly on the message body
CrossOrderCancelReplaceRequest	t	Conditional	—	Optional	inside the SideCrossOrdModGrp component
ExecutionReport	8	Optional	Optional	Optional	directly on the message body
MarketDataIncrementalRefresh	X	—	—	Optional	inside the MDIncGrp component
MarketDataSnapshotFullRefresh	W	—	—	Optional	inside the MDFullGrp component
MultilegOrderCancelReplace	AC	Conditional	—	Optional	directly on the message body
NewOrderCross	s	Conditional	—	Optional	inside the SideCrossOrdModGrp component
NewOrderList	E	Optional	Optional	Optional	inside the ListOrdGrp component
NewOrderMultileg	AB	Conditional	—	Optional	directly on the message body
NewOrderSingle	D	Conditional	Optional	Optional	directly on the message body
OrderCancelReplaceRequest	G	Conditional	Optional	Optional	directly on the message body
PositionMaintenanceReport	AM	—	—	Optional	directly on the message body
PositionMaintenanceRequest	AL	—	—	Optional	directly on the message body
PositionReport	AP	—	—	Optional	directly on the message body
Quote	S	—	—	Optional	directly on the message body
QuoteRequest	R	—	—	Optional	inside the QuotReqGrp component
RequestForPositions	AN	—	—	Optional	directly on the message body
RequestForPositionsAck	AO	—	—	Optional	directly on the message body
SettlementInstructionRequest	AV	—	—	Optional	directly on the message body
SettlementInstructions	T	—	—	Optional	inside the SettlInstGrp component
SettlementObligationReport	BQ	—	—	Optional	inside the SettlObligationInstructions component
TradeCaptureReport	AE	Conditional	—	Optional	inside the TrdCapRptSideGrp component
TradeCaptureReportAck	AR	—	—	Optional	directly on the message body

Wire format

A three-letter ISO 4217 code. @boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string; format rules are checked by validate(), which reports validate/invalid-value rather than throwing.

Read tag 120 in TypeScript

decode.tsts

import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix44";const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);const field = message.fields[120];field?.name;   // "SettlCurrency"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a string

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