Three days of events focus on Standards in New York Top executives from global banks and market infrastructures met at Swift’s New York offices in May 2016 for the fourth Market Infrastructure Summit. The day’s agenda focused on the execution of the ISO 20022 Harmonisation Charter, i.e. how to turn the Charter best practice principles into an operational reality. Each of the key principles was extensively discussed: sharing information, publishing service information on MyStandards, adhering to…

You can now publish, maintain, and test all the messaging formats you exchange using MyStandards - not just MT and ISO 20022.

When Fabian Vandenreydt took over management of Swift's innovation programme at the end of 2013, it placed him at the heart of the fintech sector - a position recognised by the Financial News inaugural power list of the most influential and innovative individuals in emerging financial technology in Europe.

New York, October 4, 2012 ─ Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today announced J.P. Morgan is the first global institution and the first in the Americas' region to sign up for MyStandards. MyStandards is the new, collaborative web-based application designed to facilitate the management of global standards and related market practices across the financial industry.

Sibos, Boston - 29 September 2014 - Swift announces today at Sibos that it will provide access free of charge to its new KYC Registry throughout 2015 to those banks that contribute their own institutional know your customer (KYC) data. Swift will be making data consumption free in 2015 for those institutions that contribute their own information, making it easier for banks to work together to reduce the cost and effort related to KYC compliance.

Brussels, 17 July 2013 - Innotribe, Swift's initiative to enable collaborative innovation in financial services, has announced the 15 finalists for the 2013 Innotribe Startup Challenge finale. The finalists, selected from over 200 applicants by a panel of expert investors and financial industry professionals in Europe, the Americas and Asia, represent the most important up and coming products and services for the financial sector.

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.

On 20 October 2022, the ECB shared its decision delaying the ISO 20022 migration of the Eurosystem by four months. In light of this announcement and in line with our earlier scenario planning, Swift committed to further analyse and validate impacts on the timeline for CBPR+ with a view to maintaining operational and business continuity across the global financial system. An overwhelming majority of our global community has requested that we align the start of the…

Enhancements will address a number of challenges faced by the community.

Brussels, 10 October 2012 - 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 customers can now deploy Alliance Access - its flagship messaging interface - on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.