The Parties component block is used to identify and convey information on the entities both central and peripheral to the financial transaction represented by the FIX message containing the Parties Block. The <Parties> block allows many different types of entites to be expressed through use of the PartyRole (452) field and identifies the source of the PartyID through the the PartyIDSource.

Added in protocol FIX.4.3

See in: FIX.4.3, FIX.5.0, FIX.5.0SP1, FIX.5.0SP2, FIX.5.0SP2 EP240.

Field or Component Name Description Is Required Added Is Deprecated
453 NoPartyIDs Repeating group below should contain unique combinations of PartyID, PartyIDSource, and PartyRole FIX.4.3
448 PartyID Used to identify source of PartyID. Required if PartyIDSource is specified. Required if NoPartyIDs > 0. FIX.4.3
447 PartyIDSource Used to identify class source of PartyID value (e.g. BIC). Required if PartyID is specified. Required if NoPartyIDs > 0. FIX.4.3
452 PartyRole Identifies the type of PartyID (e.g. Executing Broker). Required if NoPartyIDs > 0. FIX.4.3
ImplicitBlockRepeating PtysSubGrp Repeating group of Party sub-identifiers. FIX.4.4