The new Swift infrastructure in SGX is live and ready to support ISO 20022 and FIXML messages

London has capitalised on its status as the premier trading centre for global FX to become the de facto home of offshore renminbi, but CNH liquidity in London is bolstered by the ability of asset managers based in the City to satisfy the appetite of international investors for Chinese equity and debt.

New academic research from the Swift Institute analyses the latest payments regulations, identifying gaps and consequences with recommendations to help clarify new policies.

The most promising fintech companies in Asia have now been selected to compete in the Startup Challenge Finale at Sibos in Singapore.

Finance moves fast. To keep up with the pace, Sibos is the only place to be. Join us there – and be part of the future of finance.

Swift Securities View won Best New Asset Servicing Project at Global Custodian’s Leaders in Custody awards 2023. This recognises the rapid uptake from the industry and significant potential of the service to improve transparency across post-trade settlement. Simon A.X. Daniel, Securities Product Manager at Swift, explains.

Sibos 2018 offered an opportunity for its first wave of users to reflect on and share their key learnings

With 18 months to go until the end of the coexistence period, the daily average number of CBPR+ messages exchanged now exceeds one million. With steady progress continuing, at its March 2024 meeting, the Swift Board re-confirmed the community’s commitment to November 2025 as the end of the MT/ISO 20022 cross-border coexistence period, emphasising that priority should be given to instruction messages to ensure operational continuity and ongoing interoperability.

New service provides customers with a deeper analysis of their payments and trade finance traffic over Swift.

New SwiftRef APIs provide an automated data look-up service that identifies and validates BICs, LEIs, IBANs, settlement instructions and national bank codes against the latest data in real time.