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.

Swift’s KYC Registry now enables corporates to efficiently manage and share KYC data with their banking partners across the globe.

Securities settlement fails create both added costs and operational risks for trading counterparties. These challenges are only going to intensify under CSDR’s Settlement Discipline Regime and the decision by certain markets to adopt T+1. Better transparency on securities transactions will be essential if we are to reduce settlement fails moving forward.

More than 165 banks signed up, with 100 currencies and 350 country corridors in operation as service quickly gains traction

In their latest report, Swift and the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) highlight a growth in automation rates for cross-border fund orders that rose to 89.4% during the first half of 2018

The Swift India and South Asia Regional Conference 2019 gathered experts to discuss trade finance digitisation, cybercrime and risk management

Brussels - 9 October 2013 - Swift announced today that the CICI Utility, the interim global legal entity identifier (LEI) solution developed in collaboration with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has been endorsed by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) as a pre-Local Operating Unit (LOU).

Brussels, 24 October 2013 - The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) today published in cooperation with Swift, a new report on the evolution of automation and standardisation rates of fund orders received by transfer agents (TAs) in the cross-border fund centres of Luxembourg and Ireland in the first half of 2013.

Sibos, Dubai, 18 September 2013 - Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today announced that The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) has become the first Asian bank to adopt the multi-bank digital identity solution 3SKey in the region. BTMU will initially offer the solution to its corporate customers for transaction signing using personal signatures.

Brussels, 18 March 2013 - The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) today published in cooperation with Swift, a new report on the evolution of automation and standardisation rates of fund orders received by transfer agents (TAs) in the cross-border fund centres of Luxembourg and Ireland in 2012. This report confirms that the automation rate and the use of the ISO standards in the fund industry continued to increase in 2012.