Local Registration Application (LRA)
The application that the security officer uses to register an organisation's users and manage an organisation's certificate.
The KYC Registry continues to foster trust across our community
New capabilities underline the critical role the KYC Registry plays within the Swift community.
Holistic data solution for comprehensive due diligence
Integration of data from The KYC Registry and Bankers World Online
Swift helps industry drive harmonisation benefits of T2S
One of the many promised benefits of the new pan-European settlement system TARGET2-Securities (T2S) is that it will drive harmonisation across the post-trade securities environment in the Eurozone and beyond. A crucial element of harmonisation is standardisation. In the case of T2S, the CSDs and banks (directly connected participants (DCPs)) that will communicate directly with the new platform must use ISO 20022 formatted messages to do so.
Swift announces a new strategy for instant, frictionless payments and securities processing
- Enabling seamless transactions from one account to another anywhere in the world with end-to-end transparency and predictability
- Made available through a next-generation digital platform that maintains Swift’s hallmark focus on resiliency and security
Italian financial community gathers to discuss challenges and opportunities for banks in the new payments landscape
On 27 March 2018, 110 participants representatives from Italian banks, corporates, Banca d’Italia, EBA Clearing and Swift gathered in Milan to discuss how Swift GPI and instant payments are transforming the customer experience and what opportunities these developments will offer to the financial industry.
ISO 20022 in bytes for payments: Supporting your CBPR+ readiness
Welcome to the 9th edition of ISO 20022 in bytes for payments, as we continue supporting community preparations for November 2022.
Egypt’s recent economic reforms top the agenda at the Swift Business Forum Egypt
Latest Swift traffic data released at the event shows that growth in Egypt outperformed growth of Swift globally in 2016
Successful testing paves way for CBDC use cross-border
Central and commercial banks see “clear potential and value” in Swift’s pioneering CBDC interoperability solution, following successful testing in a sandbox environment.
The time is right to accelerate cloud migration
Increasingly, financial institutions are migrating their core services to public and private cloud solutions.
ISO 20022 in bytes: Better data means better payments
Welcome to the latest edition of ISO in bytes, providing a high-level overview of the most critical updates on the ISO 20022 adoption programme for cross-border payments and reporting.