Anna Agafonova joins Swift as Chief Financial Officer
Swift recruits senior financial executive to its leadership team
Latin American central banks enhance transparency with Swift
Eight central banks across the region embrace a collaborative approach to financial crime compliance
Swift unlocks potential of tokenisation with successful blockchain experiments
Cooperative demonstrates secure and scalable way to connect multiple blockchains for movement of tokenised assets around the world
Swift can provide single point of entry for financial institutions moving tokenised assets while leveraging existing secure infrastructure
Experiments are part of Swift’s ongoing work to maintain strong, secure interoperability across a fragmented financial ecosystem
Three pillars to protect your core payment systems against fraud
COVID-19 has created a new normal in more ways than one. Fraudsters have been quick to exploit the opportunities presented by changes to working processes including application fraud attacks, where stolen identities are used to apply for financial products, along with a plethora of phishing and mule recruitment efforts.
ISO 20022 in bytes for payments: Exploring the benefits of ISO 20022 adoption with real-life use cases
ISO 20022 usage continues to gain momentum. Since the start of coexistence, an average of 620,000 ISO 20022 messages have been exchanged every single business day on our network. And this between 1,200+ sending institutions and 5,800+ receiving institutions in over 200 countries.
If you’d like to learn more, you can find a monthly summary of the key migration statistics in the ISO 20022 Document Centre.
And in just a few weeks, Transaction Manager will finish with its live traffic…
Swift testifies before European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
By invitation, Blanche Petre, General Counsel Swift, today testified before the EU Parliament's LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee), together with EU Commissioner Malmström and the Director of Europol Rob Wainwright.
Leading global transaction banks kick off blockchain proof of concept with Swift GPI
Swift’s proof of concept will determine if distributed ledger technology can help banks reconcile their nostro accounts in real time
The potential and pitfalls of Central Bank Digital Currencies
Much of the debate around Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) has focused on their domestic impact, but they have the potential to transform the most fundamental building blocks of international economic activity by creating new opportunities for faster, cheaper and more secure cross-border payments.
Are the G20 targets enough to revolutionise cross-border payments?
Experts at Sibos 2023 agree that we need to unite behind shared goals to meet ambitious G20 targets designed to enhance cross-border payments.
Swift India announces its launch in India
Mumbai, 18 March 2014 - Swift India Domestic Services ("Swift India") today announced its official launch in India, marking a new era for the domestic financial services industry.