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SWIFTNet FIN traffic by market — February 2008 YTD

Posted 21 March 2008
Markets definition for SWIFTNet FIN
Following Message Type categories have been allocated to the different markets
Payments
Cat 1Customer Payments and Cheques
Cat 2Financial Institution Transfers
Cat 8Travellers Cheques
Cat 9Cash Management & Customer Status
FIN-CopyMT 012 + MT 096
Securities
Cat 5Securities Markets
 Treasury
Cat 3Foreign Exchange, Money Markets and Derivatives
Cat 6Precious Metals and Syndications
Trade
Cat 4Collection & Cash Letters
Cat 7Documentary Credits & Guarantees
System
Cat 0*System messages
* Excluding FIN-Copy messages: MT 012 + MT 096
SWIFTNet FIN total traffic & distribution by market
Payments - 50.1%
Securities - 41.4%
Treasury - 6.8%
Trade - 1.2%
System - 0.4%
SWIFTNet FIN total traffic growth by market
SWIFTNet FIN traffic distribution by market
Market
February 2008 YTD
Distribution
Growth
Growth
adjusted*
Contribution to growth
Payments
312,259,112
50.1%
15.4%
13.5%
35.5%
Securities
258,046,594
41.4%
31.2%
29.0%

55.5%

Treasury
42,598,465
6.8%
29.6%
27.4%
8.8%
Trade
7,690,749
1.2%
1.5%
-0.3%
0.0%
System
2,186,708
0.4%
14.3%
12.4%
0.2%
Total
622,781,628
100.0%
22.2%
20.1%
100.0%

*Growth adjusted to Business days (41.5 in 2008 vs 40.8 in 2007)