How better payments will change our lives
Swift’s Harry Newman, Head of Banking, and Stephen Lindsay, Head of Standards, look at the significant changes taking place within the structures that enable payments across the world.
Swift and Singapore’s IMDA Join Forces to Drive Global Trade Digitalisation
Collaboration combines the reach, scale and reliability of Swift with IMDA’s efforts on technology and legal frameworks to accelerate trade digitalisation
Cybersecurity and Fraud Detection in the COVID-19 Age
With work practices transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the finance industry has an urgent need to address the associated rise in cyber vulnerabilities. At a recent Swift webinar, industry experts from Wells Fargo, Kaspersky, and BAE Systems explored the need for organisations to turn towards technology, cooperation, and build a cyber-aware internal culture to manage and defend against institutional payments fraud in the new normal.
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
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.
Learning a new language for the next generation of payments
When it comes to ISO 20022, time is of the essence
Powering smarter securities and community efficiencies
The securities industry has a lot to gain through collaboration, especially in areas where there’s no advantage to compete. Here’s how the Swift community is facilitating this and the opportunities to look out for.
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Swift engages expert cyber security firms and establishes dedicated Customer Security Intelligence team
Swift’s Customer Security Programme advances as information sharing initiative delivers early results