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SWIFTNet FIN traffic by market — February 2009 YTD

Posted 26 March 2009
Markets definition for SWIFTNet FIN
Following Message Type categories have been allocated to the different markets
Payments
Cat 1 Customer Payments and Cheques
Cat 2 Financial Institution Transfers
Cat 8 Travellers Cheques
Cat 9 Cash Management & Customer Status
FIN-Copy MT 012 + MT 096
Securities
Cat 5 Securities Markets
Treasury
Cat 3 Foreign Exchange, Money Markets and Derivatives
Cat 6 Precious Metals and Syndications
Trade
Cat 4 Collection & Cash Letters
Cat 7 Documentary Credits & Guarantees
System
Cat 0* System messages
* Excluding FIN-Copy messages: MT 012 + MT 096
SWIFTNet FIN total traffic & distribution by market
Payments - 49.1%
Securities - 43.1%
Treasury - 6.3%
Trade - 1.1%
System - 0.4%
SWIFTNet FIN total traffic growth by market
SWIFTNet FIN traffic distribution by market
Market
Feb 2009 YTD
Distribution
Growth
Growth adjusted*
Contribution to growth
Payments
278,045,079
 49.1%
-11.0%
-5.9%
74.2%
Securities
243,818,672
 43.1%
-5.5%
-0.1%
1.0%
Treasury
35,471,715
6.3%
-16.7%
-12.0%
20.7%
Trade
6,249,802
 1.1%
-18.7%
-14.1%
4.4%
System
2,145,088
 0.4%
-1.9%
3.7%
-0.3%
Total
565,730,356
 100.0%
-9.2%
-4.0%
100%

*Growth adjusted to Business days (39.25 in 2009 vs 41.5 in 2008)