The ‘HADU’ Student team from the Warwick Business School named winners of the inaugural Swift Institute Challenge on ‘Remittances via Banks’

Greater transparency into the trading lifecycle – enabled through the unique transaction identifier and Swift Securities View – could help avoid costly settlement fails, especially as more markets move to T+1. Tracy Chou, Senior Securities Expert at Swift, explains.

When you speak to Michael Salerno,Vice President, Global Banking Group at First National Bank of Omaha, it immediately becomes clear just how passionate he is about helping the bank’s customers to grow internationally.

Every year, the annual standards release ensures that the messages exchanged by Swift users remain suitable for the business areas in which they are used. The Standards Release has a global impact on information systems across the financial services industry. The annual Standards Release deployed for FIN messages, impacts institutions at different levels, from the interface used to connect to Swift to back-office applications, to business flows and processes.

Swift announces today that its KYC Registry will become the first global utility to integrate the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Sustainable Trade Finance Guidelines, making it easier for financial institutions to identify environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in their supply chains.

New Business Intelligence FX Performance Insights tool is now available to the wider financial community

Third Swift Business Forum in Warsaw looks at recent developments in Poland’s economy and market infrastructure landscape and assesses how well it is prepared for the future.

Brussels, 10 September 2013 - Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banks, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today published a white paper, "Africa Payments: Insights into African transaction flows. Based on analysis of Swift traffic, it offers unique insights into transaction flows between African countries, and between Africa and other regions. The paper identifies environmental factors that may drive change in cross…

• PoC successfully delivers business functionalities • DLT instance meets governance, security and data privacy requirements • ISO 20022 data model and UETR pivotal to improving Nostro processes • DLT a strategic priority for Swift

Together with leading cash management banks and 20 sector-leading corporates, we’re extending the benefits of ISO 20022 to businesses, overcoming fragmentation in the corporate experience and enhancing speed and transparency.