The EMEA region sits at the heart of Swift's business, containing many of Swift's biggest markets. But even if EMEA holds some of Swift's most mature markets, it still has huge scope for growth and development, whether through finding solutions to industry challenges or in expanding into new and growing markets.

As demand for speedier cross-border payments continues to grow, so too does the burden on banks to keep these payments compliant and secure. Swift’s Heather Lee explores how industry collaboration can satisfy the needs of both business and regulators.

Leetchi.com helps people get ready to celebrate. It too has reason to celebrate as the online group payments specialist is rapidly becoming an important player in global ‘many-to-one’ payments.

- 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

China Minsheng Bank, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase are latest to go live to support small businesses and consumers with fast, secure, predictable cross-border payments Rapid adoption of Swift Go since launch in July reinforces Swift strategy for instant, frictionless cross-border transactions

Collaborative experiments with 38 global institutions demonstrate new use cases for Swift solution across digital trade, securities and foreign exchange Swift solution could enable financial institutions to easily incorporate CBDCs and other digital assets into common business practices Connector can interlink multiple networks and could lead to automated trade flows and unlock growth in tokenisation

Swift launches a full-scale community consultation that sets out its vision for migration of cross-border services to ISO 20022

LONDON, 25 February 2013 - Small businesses and entrepreneurs with the potential to transform global financial services will have the chance to pitch their ideas to leading banks and investors, thanks to the London Innotribe Startup Challenge to be held at Level39, Canary Wharf on 18 April.

By providing the reliable and resilient messaging infrastructure that underpins over $5 trillion a day of gross foreign exchange (FX) flows through CLS, Swift is supporting risk reduction and liquidity management in the FX market.

Helping customer detect fraudulent payments