SwiftNet Directory (SND)
A centralised X.500 directory of entities that stores the certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists that the SwiftNet Certification Authority issues. The SwiftNet Directory identifies an entity by its Distinguished Name (DN). The entities are available to security officers who use the Local Registration Application through the SwiftNet Online Operations Manager to manage them. The certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists are available to the customer's SwiftNet interface (for example, Alliance Gateway).
Swift offers an instant payments messaging service
The launch of the Swift instant payments messaging service for Europe in November 2018 will coincide with the launch of the pan-European real-time payments service being built by the European Central Bank (ECB)
UniCredit’s Wohlgeschaffen to join Swift’s Corporate Advisory Group
The Global Head of Trade Products at UniCredit shares his views on Swift's role in the corporate market.
ISO in bytes: The voice of the Canadian community, a refined activation approach and your testing journey
Welcome to the 6th edition of ISO 20022 in bytes. In this edition, with just thirteen months until the go-live of CBPR+ and the Transaction Manager (TM), we’ll hear from Payments Canada about their journey as an RTGS to adopt HVPS+, the ISO 20022 market practices for payment market infrastructures. The CBPR+ programme is moving ahead at full steam, with the in-flow translation service set to become available for testing this November, and a refined transition period for next year’s move from…
Swift GPI Day Dubai – a deep dive into the future of cross border payments
On 6 March, 2018, representatives from more than 150 financial institutions and corporates from across the Middle East gathered in Dubai to discuss how Swift’s global payment innovation (gpi) service is transforming the world of cross-border payments.
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…
ISO 20022 in bytes for payments: Focus on instruction messages for November 2025
With 18 months to go until the end of the coexistence period, the daily average number of CBPR+ messages exchanged now exceeds one million.
With steady progress continuing, at its March 2024 meeting, the Swift Board re-confirmed the community’s commitment to November 2025 as the end of the MT/ISO 20022 cross-border coexistence period, emphasising that priority should be given to instruction messages to ensure operational continuity and ongoing interoperability.
Continuing the ISO 20022 story in Indonesia
The first Standards Forum Indonesia gathers more than 160 participants.
ISO 20022 in bytes for payments: Less than six months till CBPR+ general go-live!
Due to the start of the go-live and the coexistence period for ISO 20022 for CBPR+ changing to 20 March 2023 some of the information in the content is out of date. For more information on the migration to ISO 20022 in payments please visit our readiness page. 
Welcome to the 10th edition of ISO 20022 in bytes for payments. With less than six months till CBPR+ general go-live, we’re seeing increased readiness activities from the community, with interface upgrades accelerating and…
Italian financial community gathers to discuss challenges and opportunities for banks in the new payments landscape
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.