SwiftNet Registration Authority (RA)
A Swift-registered body that identifies and authenticates an institution and the initial users of the SwiftNet Public Key Infrastructure (for example, an institution's security officer).
Swift Securities View gains rapid momentum in drive to reduce settlement fails
Over 50 of the world’s largest institutions have signed up for the new service that helps reduce settlement fails through clear end-to-end tracking across post-trade processing.
Banks see “clear potential and value” in Swift’s experimental CBDC connector after sandbox collaboration
Swift innovation enables CBDCs to move seamlessly on existing financial infrastructure and efficiently scale for international transactions across more than 200 countries
18 central and commercial banks encourage continued development after nearly 5,000 CBDC-to-CBDC and CBDC-to-fiat simulations over 12-week period
Swift will build beta version for further testing and explore additional use cases in securities settlement and trade finance
The need for rich data in a shared ledger paradigm
The concept of a new, universal shared ledger for digital payments and assets is gaining interest as a way of transforming how transactions are recorded and settled. When combined with a messaging layer, a shared ledger could create a powerful proposition capable of supporting the rich, structured data exchange needed for transactions in regulated assets or money.
New collaborative experiments explore more complex CBDC use cases
The results of our latest collaborative CBDC sandbox experiments are in, successfully demonstrating the use of CBDCs and other digital tokens across simulated digital trade, tokenised asset and FX networks, and payments.
Rare earths – a powerful attraction
China has dominated the production of rare earth metals – the vital inputs in the clean energy transition as well as military equipment. But this could be all set to change as Western economies seek greater control and to reduce their dependence.
Continuing the ISO 20022 story in Indonesia
The first Standards Forum Indonesia gathers more than 160 participants.
Top 10 takeaways from Inside Innovation
The rapid acceleration in the digitisation of financial services over the past year has thrust innovation into focus for the financial industry. At Swift's recent Inside Innovation event, thought leaders from around the world highlighted the challenges that this presents firms with, and ways they can look to innovate for a successful future.
Reinforcing the chain
FATF Recommendation 16 highlights the end-to-end data quality challenge of financial crime compliance
Building a brighter payments future
Cross-border payments have already become quick and transparent, with far less friction preventing them from arriving at their destination on time – but there’s still room for improvement. We look at what a brighter payments future could look like, and how the financial community can build it together.
ISO 20022 in bytes for payments: Less than three months till CBPR+ general go-live!
Due to the start of the go-live and the coexistence period for ISO 20022 for CBPR+ changing to 20 March 2023 some of the information in the content is out of date. For more information on the migration to ISO 20022 in payments please visit our readiness page. 
With the completion of the FINplus RMA bootstrap and the start of early adoption, it’s been a busy last few weeks in the CBPR+ world for our community. In particular, there has been further progress on messaging interface…