Sibos 2018 offered an opportunity for its first wave of users to reflect on and share their key learnings

The newly enriched FX data service from Swift uses real transactions to measure activity share and competitive position on an instrument-by-instrument basis.

Mark Brotherton, Director, Fraud & Financial Crime, Commercial Banking at Lloyds Banking Group, and his team of over 100 specialists, sit on the front line in the battle against financial crime. We spoke to Brotherton about how they have developed an automated approach to combatting risk by leveraging Swift's data solutions

Swift recruits senior executive from Google

Euroclear’s ESES CSDs, VP SECURITIES and VP LUX complete successful migration to T2S using Swift’s Value Added Network solution

Dubai, 17 September 2013 – Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, announced today at Sibos that Clearstream will use Swift’s Value Added Network (VAN) solution to connect to T2S. Clearstream plans to migrate fully to T2S - connecting via the Swift VAN - in wave 3 in September 2016.

Ericsson announced it will use Swift MT 798 messages for standardising and automating the communication with its financial institutions

HSBC processes 4.4 billion payments every year – or 139 every second. The bank has offered ISO 20022 XML based products and solutions since 2003, and has seen a continuous growth in customer demand and transaction volume. Recently, HSBC partnered with Swift to define a common industry standard for APIs in Hong Kong, based on ISO 20022.

Given the importance of cyber security, here is a quick update on all the research activities that Swift Institute is carrying out on this topic

6 September 1982 the first live Swift messages were exchanged within South Africa