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SIC Instant Payments (SIC IP) Rail Facts

How money moves on this rail, in 12 sourced records: what is final, what can be returned, recalled or refunded, who decides, and what the limits are. A profile belongs to the rulebook, so no reason code list is published on this page.

What the tier labels mean, and how far this page has been checked
Draft
An agent wrote it from published material and nobody has checked it. Use it as a lead to confirm, never on its own as the basis for a retry, a return, a deadline or a compliance decision.
Corroborated
A validator found the same answer in one or more named public sources; the class in brackets says how strong they are. "Secondary sources only" means bank, processor or industry guides and nothing from the operator or regulator. Corroborated does not mean checked against the governing rulebook, so confirm before you act.
Verified
A person checked it against SIX Interbank Clearing on behalf of the Swiss National Bank's own current text and recorded the edition and date. The strongest tier here, and still reference material, not legal or compliance advice.

On a rail fact, every detail line names the section or instrument it rests on and whether that is a rule, a law, operator guidance, or observed practice.

Known gaps in this build

Not yet covered: this directory holds the profile of the SIC IP service only; the SIC RTGS service has its own profile in corpus/ch-sic, and the SIC IP reason codes sit in their own directories; the SIC Handbook, the SIC IP Service Handbook (which holds the IP message flow diagrams), SIC circulars and the three-digit SIC error code list are published only to participants on the SIC Ltd extranet and have not been read; the time-out after which the service cancels an instant payment, and the time a receiving participant has to answer, are not given in any public source read; the governing text for the CHF 20,000 per payment limit and for raising it bilaterally is not public; the figure rests on the SNB report on the SIC system; no public source read gives a deadline for answering an IP return request or for sending an IP return; whether the Instant Payments Bridge was approved, a decision the SNB report placed in mid-2026, is not established; Swiss law was read only in unofficial English translations of the National Bank Ordinance, the Financial Market Infrastructure Act and the Code of Obligations; no case law or legal commentary on bank transfers was read.