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).
Can financial services collaborate to drive sustainability?
At Sibos 2023, industry experts spoke about the need for cooperation across borders and businesses to help drive sustainability at the pace it needs.
Learning from a ‘back-office revolution’ that transformed post-trade processing
New academic research from the Swift Institute follows the transformation of UK clearing and settlement processes across CREST’s 20-year history
Faster not always better
Anyone with a mobile phone can send a text message to someone on the other side of the world instantaneously – and in most cases for free. However, when it comes to payments, interaction is slower and costly.
Swift supports ISO 20022 harmonisation best practice through MyStandards
Swift:
• Publishes ISO 20022 harmonisation best practices
• Publishes ISO 20022 Real-Time Payments message schemas in line with market practice on MyStandards
• Launches market practice evolution for ISO 20022 High Value Payments messages
DTCC and Swift named to provide CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier
Brussels, 25 July 2012 - The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Swift announced today that they have been named by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to provide the CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier (CICI) for legal entities involved in OTC derivatives trading.
Société Générale Group migrates French domestic payments traffic to Swift
The French banking group will use Swift FileAct to send domestic payments to STET, the European automated clearing house.
Swift introduces Linux support for key connectivity products
Brussels, 10 October 2012 - Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today announced that customers can now deploy Alliance Access - its flagship messaging interface - on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ chooses Swift’s 3SKey solution in Japan
Sibos, Dubai, 18 September 2013 - Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today announced that The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) has become the first Asian bank to adopt the multi-bank digital identity solution 3SKey in the region. BTMU will initially offer the solution to its corporate customers for transaction signing using personal signatures.
CIPS membership information now published on SwiftRef
Easy access to CIPS data will facilitate transactions between China and the rest of the world
Tracking APAC funds processing automation and standardisation rates
New report from Swift and joint partners, AFAC, HKIFA and ALFI, shows industry automation rates at 68.4% of fund orders in H2 2017