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Collaborative innovation in action: solving industry-wide challenges together
How can financial institutions convert their innovation efforts into effective solutions for customers? What are the ingredients of successful collaboration and what can we learn from past projects? Sean Sarginson, Global Head of Innovation at Swift, answers these questions and more.
Four innovations shaping the future of finance
In recent years, firms across the financial industry have been working intensively to embed emerging technologies into their customer offerings and back-office operations. But nascent trials are today fast being replaced by scalable, production-ready solutions. We sat down with our Innovation team to get their insights on the technologies and trends set to shape the financial services of the future.
Fraud: The not-so-clear but ever-present danger in payments
Payments fraud prevention and protection requires action from all facets of the financial services industry.
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ISO 20022 in bytes for payments: Swift accepts community request to begin ISO 20022 migration in March 2023
On 20 October 2022, the ECB shared its decision delaying the ISO 20022 migration of the Eurosystem by four months. In light of this announcement and in line with our earlier scenario planning, Swift committed to further analyse and validate impacts on the timeline for CBPR+ with a view to maintaining operational and business continuity across the global financial system.
An overwhelming majority of our global community has requested that we align the start of the…
China’s new financial sector reforms: will they go far enough?
Swift Institute and Knowledge@Wharton thought leadership series continues with a focus on China
Delivering major milestones towards instant and frictionless transactions
Following significant momentum in 2021, the industry is set for accelerated transformation in 2022 with ISO 20022 migration and the activation of Swift’s evolving platform.
EBA CLEARING, Swift and The Clearing House join forces to speed up and enhance cross-border payments
Banks from both sides of the Atlantic have successfully exchanged payment messages for a faster cross-border payment as part of a proof of concept demonstrating the feasibility of synchronizing settlement across existing instant payment systems in one of the world’s largest currency corridors.
Reaping the benefits of market reform in the Russian financial market
Welcoming over 220 delegates to what has now become a yearly Swift Business Forum appointment in Moscow, Matthieu de Heering, Head of Russia, CIS and Mongolia ran through the agenda for the day, part of which was dedicated to the ROSSwift (Russian national Swift member and user group) AGM, and gave an overview of the growth of the Russian market on Swift, both in terms of users and traffic volumes.
Swift testifies before European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
By invitation, Blanche Petre, General Counsel Swift, today testified before the EU Parliament's LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee), together with EU Commissioner Malmström and the Director of Europol Rob Wainwright.