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The resource centre provides up to date information on SWIFT for corporates. You can use it in your collateral, add it to your web site or link to this site. All material including documents, presentations and videos are public. We only ask you to indicate SWIFT as the original source.

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SWIFT Training for corporates – A complementary training portfolio New documents
To help you get familiar with SWIFT's solutions for corporates and put SWIFT Standards for corporate-to-bank traffic into practice, SWIFT Training proposes a suite of training courses. You can choose between several delivery channels and we can even design a course tailored to your specific needs. Click through for an overview of our current SWIFT Training portfolio for corporates.
Using SWIFT - Certification Programme / SWIFT for Corporates Specialist New documents
This certification has been designed to validate the knowledge of sales and sales support professionals within financial institutions that wish to make available SWIFT connectivity to their corporate clients. Candidates for this Certificate must pass an exam on 'SWIFT for Corporates'-related business and technical topics to acquire the title 'Certified SWIFT for Corporates Specialist'.
SWIFT for Corporates Specialist - factsheet PDF file New documents
Read more about the programme, differentiate your offering on the market place, and earn the trust of your corporate customers

Getting started
Plan your project
All you need to know to build your project plan. Find the roadmap and how to define the scope of your project.
Make a compelling business case
Find all ingredients needed to develop your business case
Get your bank operationally ready
Receive an overview of all the steps that you typically go through to make your bank operationally ready to start offering corporate services over SWIFTNet. The document leads you through the choices that you need to make around business applications and SWIFTNet connectivity that you want to offer, organisation of your institution, access models for your corporate customers, agreements and parameters to be set, etc. A similar document for corporates is available from this site.
Get your corporate operationally ready
Receive an overview of all the steps that you typically go through to make your corporate operationally ready to start using banking services over SWIFTNet. The document leads you through the choices that you need to make around business applications and SWIFTNet connectivity that you want to use, organisation of your institution, access models to your banks, agreements and parameters to be set, etc.

Adoption figures
Latest and up to date quarterly adoption figures showing registrations, geographical split and breakdown
by industry sector. New documents

Corporate case studies
Have corporate users really achieved benefits? Download business cases from corporates using SWIFT for corporates today. Discover the actual ROI's and qualitative benefits they achieved. Corporates vary by industry and size.New documents

Bank case studies
Banks benefit from SWIFT for corporates too! Download bank case studies to discover how four major banks are using SWIFT to respond to customer needs.

Technical and practical information
Contractual information
This section contains legal documentation (service descriptions SCORE and MA-CUG) that will be part of your contract when you register to SWIFT.
Message implementation guide - MT
This section lists in detail which, and how, the FIN Message Type (MT) messages are to be used in the corporate to bank space. Volume I addresses payments, cash reporting, treasury and securities standards. Volume II details the trade finance standards.  This material is particularly relevant for users and implementers. Readers that are familiar with a previous version of this guide will find a track changed version that allows them to focus on the updates only.
Message implementation guide - FileAct
What is FileAct? How to implement it? These documents explain the use of FileAct and provide additional information on how to send local proprietary formats.
EBAM
ISO 20022 standards are available in the Corporate to Bank space to electronically manage accounts. These documents, together with the FileAct Implementation Guide, define the message structure and content, provide you with detailed information on what is available and how to use it over SWIFT. All ISO certified!

3SKey
SWIFT launches 3SKey - a multi-network personal digital identity solution for Corporates and banks. These documents provide you with detailed information on the solution, how Corporates and Banks can benefit from it and how to implement it in your organisation.
SCORE message migration November 2009
In November 2009, the MT 103 and MT 950 message standards were removed from SCORE. As of then, the MT 101 and the MT 940 became the only valid MT message standards to give payment instructions and receive account reporting within SCORE. SWIFT has written an MT migration guide that facilitates the migration to MT 101 and MT 940.
RMA for FileAct in SCORE
RMA for FileAct in SCORE is available since 1st June 2011, on an optional basis, and will become mandatory in line with 2012 Standard Release. The purpose of this document is to describe the impact of the introduction of RMA for FileAct in SCORE, for banks and corporates using the service or planning to use it.

Glossary
Do you want to familiarise with SWIFT terms and ‘jargon’?  Visit the glossary