The New Payments Platform is a landmark payments industry initiative in Australia. It heralds a new dawn for fast, flexible and data-rich domestic payments.

Deutsche Bank’s latest report on Swift GPI demonstrates the power behind the service

As a former resident of the city's historic North End, Chris Church is ideally placed to welcome Sibos delegates back to Boston. And as both chief executive, Americas, and global head of securities at Swift, he believes Boston provides the perfect backdrop for an event that reflects the diversity of Swift's client base and the challenges that lie ahead of them in growing business while adapting to a rapidly evolving regulatory environment.

Brussels, 6 May 2014 – Swift Innotribe, together with a pool of over 500 judges, have nominated the semi-finalists for the 2014 Startup Challenge. 47 companies have been selected from around the world to pitch their business ideas during three regional showcases in London, Singapore and New York. The 5 winners of each regional showcase (three early-stage startups and two growth-stage innovators) will automatically secure a place as a finalist in the Grand Finale at Sibos, Swift’s annual…

Welcoming over 220 delegates to what has now become a yearly Swift Business Forum appointment in Moscow, Matthieu de Heering, Head of Russia, CIS and Mongolia ran through the agenda for the day, part of which was dedicated to the ROSSwift (Russian national Swift member and user group) AGM, and gave an overview of the growth of the Russian market on Swift, both in terms of users and traffic volumes.

Allegations surrounding attempts to gain unauthorised access to data at two service bureaux.

Due to the start of the go-live and the coexistence period for ISO 20022 for CBPR+ changing to 20 March 2023 some of the information in the content is out of date. For more information on the migration to ISO 20022 in payments please visit our readiness page.  With the completion of the FINplus RMA bootstrap and the start of early adoption, it’s been a busy last few weeks in the CBPR+ world for our community. In particular, there has been further progress on messaging interface upgrades for…

Renminbi: Africa’s long-term trading currency?

Global payments systems are set for transformation in the years ahead, to become more modern and efficient, and to provide new and innovative services for consumers and businesses. While perhaps not revolutionary themselves, standards are undoubtedly key enablers of the emerging industry transformation through their critical role in financial messaging evolution.

For payment providers, protecting yourself and your clients against payment fraud remains top-of-mind