-    Swift and Lloyds Banking Group announce world’s first go-live of gpi Instant connection in the UK, with benefits extending far beyond -    Builds on successful global trials and sets stage for broader adoption as instant becomes reality for cross-border payments

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), the Japan Securities Depository Centre (JASDEC) and Standard Chartered Bank are the first in the Asia-Pacific region to embrace MyStandards

Our new strategy will enable seamless transactions from one account to another anywhere in the world with end-to-end transparency and predictability.

Brussels, 9 September 2014 - Swift announces that its Sanctions Screening service has surpassed the 200-customer milestone just two years after its introduction as the first solution in Swift's financial crime compliance services portfolio. Sanctions Screening is a shared service that screens financial transactions against selected lists, providing small and medium-sized institutions with a reliable, cost-effective means of testing their compliance with sanctions regulations.

The new service will enhance compliance efforts for financial institutions and corporates through fast and accurate name screening against a variety of lists, including regulatory agencies, Dow Jones data and proprietary lists maintained by firms.

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

Liquidity in major currency pairs is healthy, but the structure of liquidity in FX is changing. Fewer banks are willing to take principal risk, most feed off the liquidity of others, the much-vaunted non-bank liquidity providers are proving reliant on bank credit, and buy-side firms are interested primarily in data that can tell them where liquidity is - and is not.

With the recent introduction of the 5th AML Directive, registries are set to play a more important role than ever in the fight against financial crime. In this article, Marie-Charlotte Henseval, Head of KYC solutions, explains how the ability to access structured data via public and private registries for systematic KYC checks is becoming the cornerstone of compliance.

Artificial intelligence can dramatically improve the speed of transactions and the accuracy of anomaly detection. To help realise the full potential of this technology, we’re building a state-of-the-art AI platform and innovating with our community.

Banks from France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Spain join with Swift to test real-time gpi cross-border payments through the Eurosystem’sTARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS)