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

As the global requirements for customer due diligence become increasingly complex, there has never been a better time for innovative KYC solutions that offer new efficiencies. In December 2019, Swift opened the KYC registry to Swift’s corporate customers to dramatically reduce the KYC burden for corporates. Since then, both corporates and banks have been benefiting from a more streamlined process for KYC information collection.

As global securities markets prepare for shorter settlement cycles, what can data from the Swift network reveal about the potential impact of the move to T+1 in North America?

Central and commercial banks see “clear potential and value” in Swift’s pioneering CBDC interoperability solution, following successful testing in a sandbox environment.

Securities settlement fails create both added costs and operational risks for trading counterparties. These challenges are only going to intensify under CSDR’s Settlement Discipline Regime and the decision by certain markets to adopt T+1. Better transparency on securities transactions will be essential if we are to reduce settlement fails moving forward.

Swift and Banks in Asia Pacific join forces to develop a unique cross-border real-time payments service in the Asia Pacific region

Swift and central securities depositories join forces to demonstrate the value of standards in distributed ledger technology for securities markets, such as proxy voting and digital assets

Over 300 representatives from banks, corporates, market infrastructures (MIs) and the press gather around the world to mark the successful delivery and fast-growing reach of Swift GPI

Day three of Innotribe at Sibos 2018 Sydney

In his new article, Wim Raymaekers, Head of Banking Market at Swift, sets out how in 2019 we’re continuing to pave the way towards frictionless cross-border payments