Frankfurt KYC Registry event attracts 70 compliance experts
Discussions highlight German banks' interest in community solution to reduce effort and cost of KYC compliance for correspondent banking.
300 customers choose Alliance Lite2 as their Swift connection over the last 12 months
Sibos, Dubai, 17 September 2013 - Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 financial institutions and corporations in 212 countries, today announced at Sibos that its cloud-based connectivity, Alliance Lite2, has been adopted by more than 300 customers globally over the past 12 months.
Swift customers to prepare for new SwiftNet CA certificate by February 2020
Customers must take action by February 2020 to avoid service disruption
Swift celebrates 30th anniversary in Australia
Sydney, 27 December 2012 - Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, recently celebrated 30 successful years of operations in Australia. This also marks a major milestone for Swift in Asia Pacific as it continues to expand and invest in this fast growing region.
First banks go live on TIPS using SwiftNet Instant
Direct access to the Eurosystem’s TIPS with SwiftNet Instant offers customers the ability to execute instant payments anywhere within the Single Euro Payments Area.
South Korea cracks the top ten in RMB payments
Brussels, 29 July 2014 - Swift's RMB Tracker shows that South Korea's RMB payments value increased by 563% between June 2013 and June 2014, making South Korea number eight in the world for RMB payments value, excluding China and Hong Kong. In June 2014, 68.9% of all direct payments between South Korea and China/Hong Kong were in RMB, up from 32.8% in June 2013.
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.
Payments digitisation powers ahead
The trend towards digitisation in the payments world was supercharged in the past year as the pandemic saw customers reach for digital solutions in far greater numbers than ever before. For financial institutions in Africa, it is vital to stay on top of this demand.
Bringing frictionless payments to all
A truly modern payments system is one that is open and ubiquitous, and that enables the flow of money to everyone, everywhere. Golnaz Amininejad, Swift GPI product manager, explains how the Swift community is delivering exactly that.
More than 100 Latin American institutions have adopted Swift’s KYC Registry
Swift's KYC Registry gains momentum amongst Latin America's banks