Local Registration Application (LRA)
The application that the security officer uses to register an organisation's users and manage an organisation's certificate.
Bringing the Swift GPI experience directly to your customers
Integrating payment tracking information in your customer facing channels will significantly enhance your operational efficiency, while equipping your customers with an instant and any time view on their international payments.
Countdown to compliance
Help is at hand for securities firms implementing ISSA’s Financial Crime Compliance Principles
Connecting digital islands: Swift supports trade digitisation with new interoperability trials
In collaboration with edoxOnline and CargoX, we’re innovating to accelerate digital trade by connecting electronic Bills of Lading (eBL) platforms and improving interoperability.
Smarter Securities: Transformation through collaboration
Shorter settlement timetables mean the securities services industry must shift from exchanging structured data messages to sharing transactional data. That requires an openness to collaboration. At Swift's recent Smarter Securities events, in Asia, Europe and North America, bankers, brokers and asset managers explained why and how collaboration needs to work.
Beyond borders: Progressing towards the G20 targets for enhancing cross-border payments
Fragmentation is a major obstacle to optimising payment flows across the globe. Addressing it head on is essential to meet the G20’s targets for enhancing cross-border payments, explains Harry Newman, Head of Banking and Payments Strategy, Swift.
ISO 20022 in bytes for payments: Supporting you through to the end of coexistence
The payments industry is in transition, converging from a wide variety of legacy message and data formats to ISO 20022: a common, global, end-to-end standard. Extra CBPR+ messages went live in November 2023, and we closed the year with a daily average exchange of 800K messages.
ISO 20022 adoption is a cornerstone of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) agenda to improve cross-border payments. We’ll continue to build on the great start made in 2023 and support the Swift…
ISO 20022 in bytes for payments: Focus on instruction messages for November 2025
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.
Fires, floods, and loans: How banks can deal with increasing climate risks
Climate-related perils are on the rise—both threatening banks’ loan portfolios and offering new business opportunities.
ARC shows regional projects progressing and showcases African FinTech talent
Biggest ever ARC celebrated real progress towards regional integration and other goals but pointed out further steps needed to continue driving the inclusive growth agenda.
Major global transaction banks are live with Swift GPI
Corporate treasurers around the world are getting a better cross-border payments experience, today