Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
A security infrastructure, based on public key cryptography, that provides digital signatures and the supporting certification services.
SwiftNet Public Key Infrastructure (SwiftNet PKI)
A pervasive security infrastructure based on public-key cryptography, which provides digital signatures and supporting certification services. SwiftNet Public Key Infrastructure comprises the SwiftNet Certification Authority, the SwiftNet Registration Authority, and the SwiftNet Directory. These authorities provide the customer with online certificate management capabilities.
‘Resilience by default’: the next 50 years through the eyes of risk professionals
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.
CGI reduces costs for corporates and banks
Brussels, 16 October 2012 - The Common Global Implementation initiative (CGI) announced today that it has published best practice guidelines for corporate-to-bank communication based on ISO20022 messages. Codifying and promoting the use of common formats in the corporate-to-bank payments space will help reduce costs and simplify implementation processes for corporates that are managing multiple bank relationships.
Real-time payments closer to a reality in Australia
The New Payments Platform is a landmark payments industry initiative in Australia. It heralds a new dawn for fast, flexible and data-rich domestic payments.
Swift revolutionises Australian banking with real-time payments
Next steps of global instant payments strategy underway in Europe, Asia and the Americas
ISO 20022 in bytes for payments: Supporting you through to the end of coexistence
The payments industry is in transition, converging from a wide variety of legacy message and data formats to ISO 20022: a common, global, end-to-end standard. Extra CBPR+ messages went live in November 2023, and we closed the year with a daily average exchange of 800K messages.
ISO 20022 adoption is a cornerstone of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) agenda to improve cross-border payments. We’ll continue to build on the great start made in 2023 and support the Swift…
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.
New Swift Go service transforms low-value cross-border payments
Seven leading banks are now live with Swift Go, our new service enabling small businesses and consumers to send fast, predictable, cost-effective and secure low-value cross-border payments directly from their bank accounts. The service is another key building block in our strategy to enable instant and frictionless transactions.
Swift eases trade reporting for EMIR compliance
Brussels, 14 January 2014 - Following the European Securities and Markets Authority's (ESMA's) approval of six trade repositories, there is a start-date of 12 February 2014 for derivatives trade reporting under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). From 12 February, entities affected by the EMIR reporting obligations will need to report their trades to one of the newly-authorised repositories.
Financial crime poses significant challenges for securities market participants
Securities industry leaders collaborate to help ease financial crime compliance concerns for cross-border securities accounts
Swift appoints Stephen Grainger as Chief Executive for Americas & U.K. Region
Grainger brings two decades of global industry experience to the role
Joins from Mastercard where he was Executive Vice President of Cross-Border Services; other past roles include Global Head of Bank Relations and Market Infrastructure at Goldman Sachs, and senior business development roles at Swift