Follow the Message

Every Business Analyst has sat in that room. The slide goes up. The message codes appear - pacs.008, camt.056, UETR, ISO 20022. Nobody explains what any of it means. Follow the Message is the book that room needed. Built around a fictional payments programme at Meridian Bank, it follows one Business Analyst through the full lifecycle of an ISO 20022 migration - every message, every exception, every business rule, every stakeholder conversation. Through eight characters who each carry a distinct layer of the domain; the book translates the payments messaging world into the language a BA actually works in. Not a standards manual. Not a technical reference. A practitioner's guide - written by someone who has spent over two decades inside the domain, for everyone who is trying to find their footing inside it.