SwiftNet Certification Authority (CA)
A Swift central system that produces and publishes digital certificate.
Swift Securities View rapidly gains momentum in drive towards seamless post-trade settlement
Launched in January, Swift Securities View enables clear tracking across all steps of the settlement process
34 of world’s biggest institutions have signed up, representing 630 million securities transactions per year
Global participants include HSBC, BNY Mellon, and Nomura Asset Management
Swift Securities View gains rapid momentum in drive to reduce settlement fails
Over 50 of the world’s largest institutions have signed up for the new service that helps reduce settlement fails through clear end-to-end tracking across post-trade processing.
Banks see “clear potential and value” in Swift’s experimental CBDC connector after sandbox collaboration
Swift innovation enables CBDCs to move seamlessly on existing financial infrastructure and efficiently scale for international transactions across more than 200 countries
18 central and commercial banks encourage continued development after nearly 5,000 CBDC-to-CBDC and CBDC-to-fiat simulations over 12-week period
Swift will build beta version for further testing and explore additional use cases in securities settlement and trade finance
Digital assets: The next frontier of finance
Digital assets could unlock a range of untapped opportunities in financial services and enable firms to deliver new value to their customers. But challenges persist that need to be resolved first.
The need for rich data in a shared ledger paradigm
The concept of a new, universal shared ledger for digital payments and assets is gaining interest as a way of transforming how transactions are recorded and settled. When combined with a messaging layer, a shared ledger could create a powerful proposition capable of supporting the rich, structured data exchange needed for transactions in regulated assets or money.
New collaborative experiments explore more complex CBDC use cases
The results of our latest collaborative CBDC sandbox experiments are in, successfully demonstrating the use of CBDCs and other digital tokens across simulated digital trade, tokenised asset and FX networks, and payments.
Rare earths – a powerful attraction
China has dominated the production of rare earth metals – the vital inputs in the clean energy transition as well as military equipment. But this could be all set to change as Western economies seek greater control and to reduce their dependence.
Swift CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt speaks at European Commission High Level Conference on Cyber-Security
Speech by Gottfried Leibbrandt at the High Level Conference on EU Cyber Security Strategy - Brussels, 28 February 2014
Continuing the ISO 20022 story in Indonesia
The first Standards Forum Indonesia gathers more than 160 participants.