Swift is a cooperative society under Belgian law and is owned and controlled by its shareholders. Swift shareholders elect a Board composed of 25 Directors who are appointed by the General Meeting of Shareholders upon proposals made by the Shareholders through the National Member Groups (NMGs).

Swift’s Nicolas Stuckens talks to Money Laundering Bulletin.

As Swift celebrates its 50th anniversary, we explore what changes the next 50 years might bring about when it comes to financial institutions’ relationship with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues.

In this hotly contested market, 90% of today’s revenue pool could migrate to software vendors, major technology firms, and other contenders.

Collaboration across the industry will be key to tackling the risks we’ll be presented with over the next 50 years. Here, senior risk professionals consider the transformative opportunities that lie ahead, how to deal with the immediate risks of climate change, ways to maintain customer trust – and why companies must run two races simultaneously.

How will the global trade landscape evolve over the next 50 years? Three payments and trade experts share their views on where we’ll see growth, and where the biggest changes will come.

During a recent roundtable discussion, representatives of Russia’s National Settlement Depository, Swift and the Russian National Swift Association (ROSSwift) explored the opportunities – and the obstacles – on the road to ISO 20022 adoption.

Correspondent banking is undergoing a data revolution. In coming years the community will make significant investment in improving the quality and richness of data in domestic and cross-border payments. Together we will reduce manual interventions and costs, improve automation and speed of settlement, better mitigate risks of financial crime compliance, and support our clients with faster reconciliation and business solutions. Welcome to our first edition of “ISO 20022 in bytes”, a new…

On 27 March 2018, 110 participants representatives from Italian banks, corporates, Banca d’Italia,  EBA Clearing and Swift gathered in Milan to discuss how Swift GPI and instant payments are transforming the customer experience and what opportunities these developments will offer to the financial industry. 

Welcoming over 220 delegates to what has now become a yearly Swift Business Forum appointment in Moscow, Matthieu de Heering, Head of Russia, CIS and Mongolia ran through the agenda for the day, part of which was dedicated to the ROSSwift (Russian national Swift member and user group) AGM, and gave an overview of the growth of the Russian market on Swift, both in terms of users and traffic volumes.