SCFS plans more SWIFT training courses

Published on 19 September 2008
Left to right: Thomas Ramadan, Regional Director, SWIFT. Matthias Kälin, UBS & Chairman of the SCFS. Daniel Wettstein, Chairman, Swiss National Bank
 
The Swiss Commission for Financial Standardisation (SCFS) is planning another series of training courses with SWIFT for Q4 2008 following a successful first series.

The SCFS is a committee of the Swiss Banking Association, and with the mandate of the Swiss SWIFT user group it orchestrates all standards-related matters in the Swiss banking community.
The commission looks at issues such as SEPA, new SWIFT solutions, standards migration and local market practice.

In mid 2008, it decided to collaborate with SWIFT to leverage community knowledge in standards. Together, the two organisations deployed a set of SWIFT training courses focusing on the new XML-based SWIFT standards. The joint marketing campaign was very successful and the courses attracted over 70 people. The next training series will focus on the needs of the Swiss banking community.