International experts support ISO 20022 migration
- Swift convenes working group of international standards experts
- Group to formulate guidelines for the implementation of ISO 20022 for cross-border payments
- Effort to ensure harmonised rollout of ISO 20022 across the world
Swift support for the FX Market – Meet the margin challenge in the back office
FX market participants face the challenge of declining profitability as clients squeeze margins and the FX Global Code increases compliance costs, but help is available from an unexpected quarter – namely, back office data and services.
Africa payment series – a view from BankservAfrica
Enabling economic development in Africa – do payment systems matter?
Swift Institute research demonstrates that mobile banking increases financial inclusion
New study from the Swift Institute and the Harvard Kennedy School looks at the impact of mobile banking on levels of financial inclusion in Africa through the lens of Kenya
Swift and EBA CLEARING start development phase of EURO1 migration to ISO 20022
The collaboration builds on a 20-year partnership and advances a broader future positioning programme that began last year
Banks support Swift adoption of ISO 20022 payments standard
Saqib Sheikh, Global Head of the ISO 20022 programme at Swift, discusses the myriad ways that ISO 20022 benefits banks and customers.
Cybersecurity: a system-wide effort
In the third of a three-part series exploring the key takeaways from the securities stream at Sibos 2019, panellists discuss the need for senior management to invest in better people, processes and technology to defend against cyber attackers.
Experts debate liquidity in FX markets
Liquidity in major currency pairs is healthy, but the structure of liquidity in FX is changing. Fewer banks are willing to take principal risk, most feed off the liquidity of others, the much-vaunted non-bank liquidity providers are proving reliant on bank credit, and buy-side firms are interested primarily in data that can tell them where liquidity is - and is not.
What does the 5th AML Directive tell us about registries and their role in combatting financial crime?
With the recent introduction of the 5th AML Directive, registries are set to play a more important role than ever in the fight against financial crime. In this article, Marie-Charlotte Henseval, Head of KYC solutions, explains how the ability to access structured data via public and private registries for systematic KYC checks is becoming the cornerstone of compliance.