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Innotribe calls on the best startups in Africa
Innotribe opens its Startup Challenge for Africa and is looking for the best startups to showcase their products during Swift’s African Regional Conference in Mauritius in May
Swift Users of South Africa (SUSA) celebrates its 35th Anniversary
6 September 1982 the first live Swift messages were exchanged within South Africa
ISO 20022 in bytes for payments: Developments during coexistence continue to make progress
The start of the migration to ISO 20022 for cross-border payments and reporting in March 2023 marked a significant milestone for the payments industry. It showcased some of our core values around operational excellence, innovation, and close collaboration with our community being demonstrated with action.
Since the start of coexistence, an average of 600,000 ISO 20022 messages were exchanged every business day between 1,000+ sending institutions and 5,600+ receiving institutions in more than…
The Innotribe Startup Challenge returns to Africa for the third consecutive year. Startups, it is time to apply!
For the third time, Innotribe will provide unique networking opportunities with banks and VCs to selected FinTech startups during Swift’s African Regional conference (ARC), taking place 16-18 May 2017 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Leveraging international standards to unify emerging financial technologies
New paper discusses the value of ISO 20022 standards in the evolving FinTech landscape
Statement on Covid-19 Precautions
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to escalate around the world, impacting millions. Swift, like financial institutions, has put in place strong measures to protect the health and wellbeing of its employees and community while ensuring very robust business and operational continuity plans.
Swift completes landmark DLT PoC
• PoC successfully delivers business functionalities
• DLT instance meets governance, security and data privacy requirements
• ISO 20022 data model and UETR pivotal to improving Nostro processes
• DLT a strategic priority for Swift
Swift and global banks launch AI pilots to tackle cross-border payments fraud
The cooperative has convened financial institutions for two pilots that will use AI to enhance fraud detection in cross-border payments
Swift is using its unique role to bring the finance industry together to improve anti-fraud capabilities by using leading AI technology
AI could help the payments industry save billions in fraud-related costs and remove friction from the cross-border payments ecosystem