Six global Swiss companies say Swift GPI addresses their pain points around speed, transparency, and tracking of cross-border payments

The 2018 Swift Institute Challenge calls on Australian-based students to devise new ways and means of protecting personal information in an open banking environment.

Information sharing and community cooperation to reduce cyber risks

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.

Memorandum of understanding cements cyber security cooperation

Every year, the annual standards release ensures that the messages exchanged by Swift users remain suitable for the business areas in which they are used. The Standards Release has a global impact on information systems across the financial services industry. The annual Standards Release deployed for FIN messages, impacts institutions at different levels, from the interface used to connect to Swift to back-office applications, to business flows and processes.

The securities industry has made big leaps in efficiency over past decades, yet there are areas where the settlement journey still faces friction. In the first of three articles, Swift’s Head of Securities Strategy, Vikesh Patel, sets out a vision for the future of frictionless post-trade settlement.

How far can we go in eliminating friction from post-trade settlement? In this third and final article in the series, Vikesh Patel, Swift’s Head of Securities Strategy explains why the answer to this question depends on fresh thinking and industry-wide collaboration.

One year on from Sibos in Singapore and the progress of the global payments innovation (gpi) initiative can now be measured in a series of concrete steps

Swedish financial services giant becomes first bank to use Swift’s service to support compliance with stricter wire transfer requirements