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SWIFTNet FIN traffic by market — January 2009 YTD

Posted 23 February 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 - 49.4%
Securities - 42.9%
Treasury - 6.2%
Trade - 1.1%
System - 0.4%
SWIFTNet FIN total traffic growth by market
SWIFTNet FIN traffic distribution by market
Market
Jan 2009 YTD
Distribution
Growth
Growth adjusted*
Contribution to growth
Payments
141,222,845
 49.4%
-12.8%
5.5%
55.9%
Securities
122,619,166
 42.9%
-9.7%
-2.1%
18.3%
Treasury
17,807,988
6.2%
-22.1%
-15.6%
22.5%
Trade
3,190,525
 1.1%
-21.6%
-15.0%
3.8%
System
1,080,005
 0.4%
-1.3%
7.1%
-0.5%
Total
285,920,529
 100.0%
-12.3%
-4.9%
100%

*Growth adjusted to Business days (19.55 in 2009 vs 21.2 in 2008)