FIX 4.2 Tag 56: TargetCompID

Identifies the firm receiving the message.

Tag number: 56
Data type: STRING
FIX version: FIX 4.2
Location: Standard header

Data type

STRING: Text of printable characters. It cannot contain the SOH delimiter.

FIX 4.2 message types that use tag 56

TargetCompID belongs to the FIX 4.2 standard message header, which every message carries.

Also in other versions

FIX 4.0
FIX 4.1
FIX 4.3
FIX 4.4
FIX 5.0
FIX 5.0 SP1
FIX 5.0 SP2

Tag 56 across all FIX versions

Decode a message with this tag

Field and message data comes from the QuickFIX data dictionaries for FIX 4.0 to 5.0 SP2 and FIXT 1.1, used under the QuickFIX Software License. This product includes software developed by quickfixengine.org (http://www.quickfixengine.org/). Enumerated value names are converted to plain text for reading.