Collaboration across the industry will be key to tackling the risks we’ll be presented with over the next 50 years. Here, senior risk professionals consider the transformative opportunities that lie ahead, how to deal with the immediate risks of climate change, ways to maintain customer trust – and why companies must run two races simultaneously.

There’s no question technology plays a powerful role in enabling the movement of payments around the world. With access to a smartphone, individuals can purchase goods, pay bills, communicate with friends and family who are miles away, and more. Businesses can easily pay remote teams and partners and securely accept payments from virtually anywhere in the world. The efficiencies and problem-solving possibilities seem endless.

ISO 20022’s rich data is at the heart of achieving the industry’s ambition for instant and frictionless payments. And it opens big benefits for firms that embrace the opportunity. Nicolas Stuckens, Head of ISO 20022 Adoption and Data Quality at Swift, discusses the 5 key reasons you should adopt the new standard today.

Swift Deputy CISO speaks at Austrian National Bank conference

Johannesburg, 17 February 2014 - The Central Bank of Nigeria's high value payment system has gone live on Swift. The move to Swift is a key element of the Central Bank of Nigeria's Payment System Vision 2020 (PSV2020), which calls for a "Nationally Utilised and Internationally Recognised" payments system and provides a robust platform to support Nigeria's continued economic growth.

Securities industry leaders collaborate to help ease financial crime compliance concerns for cross-border securities accounts

-    New service enables businesses and consumers to send payments in seconds with full transparency and strong security -    Swift Go is a key building block in the co-operative’s strategy to enable instant and frictionless cross-border transactions -    Seven leading global banks already live with the service

Brussels, 2 April 2014 – Sibos, the world’s premier financial services event, announces this year’s opening and closing plenary speakers: Jamie Forese, Co-President of Citi, and Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will open and close Sibos 2014 Boston respectively.

Three days of events focus on Standards in New York Top executives from global banks and market infrastructures met at Swift’s New York offices in May 2016 for the fourth Market Infrastructure Summit. The day’s agenda focused on the execution of the ISO 20022 Harmonisation Charter, i.e. how to turn the Charter best practice principles into an operational reality. Each of the key principles was extensively discussed: sharing information, publishing service information on MyStandards, adhering to…

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