Launched in January, Swift Securities View enables clear tracking across all steps of the settlement process 34 of world’s biggest institutions have signed up, representing 630 million securities transactions per year Global participants include HSBC, BNY Mellon, and Nomura Asset Management

Over 50 of the world’s largest institutions have signed up for the new service that helps reduce settlement fails through clear end-to-end tracking across post-trade processing.

Swift innovation enables CBDCs to move seamlessly on existing financial infrastructure and efficiently scale for international transactions across more than 200 countries 18 central and commercial banks encourage continued development after nearly 5,000 CBDC-to-CBDC and CBDC-to-fiat simulations over 12-week period Swift will build beta version for further testing and explore additional use cases in securities settlement and trade finance

Digital assets could unlock a range of untapped opportunities in financial services and enable firms to deliver new value to their customers. But challenges persist that need to be resolved first.

Better data means better payments 

The concept of a new, universal shared ledger for digital payments and assets is gaining interest as a way of transforming how transactions are recorded and settled. When combined with a messaging layer, a shared ledger could create a powerful proposition capable of supporting the rich, structured data exchange needed for transactions in regulated assets or money.

The results of our latest collaborative CBDC sandbox experiments are in, successfully demonstrating the use of CBDCs and other digital tokens across simulated digital trade, tokenised asset and FX networks, and payments.

China has dominated the production of rare earth metals – the vital inputs in the clean energy transition as well as military equipment. But this could be all set to change as Western economies seek greater control and to reduce their dependence.

Speech by Gottfried Leibbrandt at the High Level Conference on EU Cyber Security Strategy - Brussels, 28 February 2014

The first Standards Forum Indonesia gathers more than 160 participants.