SWIFT Corporate Rules

Table of Contents

Introduction

• A SWIFT Overview
• Governance at SWIFT
• Compliance Statement

SWIFT User Categories

• Joining SWIFT
• Supervised Financial Institutions
• Shareholders (Members)/ Non-Shareholders/ Submembers
• Non-Supervised entities active in the financial industry
• Categories of Users for Services administered by a Service Administrator:
  • Payment System Participants
  • Securities Market Infrastructure System Participants
  • Service Participants within Member Administered Closed User Group
• Compliance with Eligibility Criteria
• Loss of Operating Licence
• Liquidation
• Mergers
• Deactivations

The SWIFT Organisation

• The SWIFT Executive
• The Board of Directors
• National Member Groups / User Groups
• SWIFT Partners
• Service Bureaux

The General Meeting of Shareholders

• Organisation of a General Meeting
• Board of Directors
• General Meeting Representative
• Attendance at the General Meeting
• Chairman of the General Meeting
• General Meeting Procedure
• Voting Process
• Voting Conditions
• General Meeting Minutes
• Shareholding