Swift kicks off pilot for global payments innovation initiative
21 banks piloting Swift’s new initiative to improve cross-border payments
Carlo Palmers talks instant payments with The Global Treasurer
Innovation, new technologies, demand from customers and markets moving to real-time are all driving the development of real-time payments
Standard Chartered goes live in Germany with Swift GPI
An addition to its gpi service that went live in the United States and Singapore in 2017
Tracking APAC funds processing automation and standardisation rates
New report from Swift and joint partners, AFAC, HKIFA and ALFI, shows industry automation rates at 68.4% of fund orders in H2 2017
Swift certified to provide access to Eurosystem’s TIPS
Swift has passed all compliance checks required to offer customers seamless connectivity to TIPS from go-live using SwiftNet Instant
Swift and HSBC to define industry standard for APIs in Hong Kong
The new standard will ensure higher levels of interoperability and improve customer experience
Digital Shadows and OpenGamma win Belfast Innotribe Startup Challenge showcase
Brussels, June 18 2012 - Innotribe, Swift's initiative to enable collaborative innovation in financial services, announced that Digital Shadows and OpenGamma have been awarded "Top Startup" and "Top Innovator" respectively, at the third and final Innotribe Startup Challenge Regional Showcase held on June 14, 2012 in Belfast.
Innotribe announces semi-finalists for Startup Challenge Belfast
Brussels, 6 June - Innotribe, Swift's initiative to enable collaborative innovation in financial services, is holding the European leg of its annual Startup Challenge in Belfast on 14th June. The competition will bring Belfast's most promising entrepreneurs together to win the opportunity to successfully grow their business with consultation and funding from Swift, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. Semi-finalists of the Belfast Innotribe Startup Challenge will pitch…
Financial industry agrees offshore RMB guidelines
Hong Kong, 13 February 2012 - As international use of the Chinese currency grew exponentially over the past eighteen months, financial institutions around the world identified important issues around efficient processing of payments, treasury and securities transactions using the renminbi (RMB). After initial discussions by groups of institutions in Hong Kong actively involved in settling offshore RMB across securities and transaction banking markets, the industry has now defined a new set of…
Fund processing standardisation continued to make progress in the first half of 2013
Brussels, 24 October 2013 - The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) today published in cooperation with Swift, a new report on the evolution of automation and standardisation rates of fund orders received by transfer agents (TAs) in the cross-border fund centres of Luxembourg and Ireland in the first half of 2013.