SWIFT for banks

SWIFT was created more than 35 years ago by 239 banks in 15 countries. Today, over 9,000 financial institutions, including banks, securities institutions and corporate customers in more than 200 countries use SWIFT. Every day, more banks are joining SWIFT.

To find out why and how your institution can benefit from a direct connection to SWIFT, please check out "Reaching your counterparties".

We invite you to read our newsletter "Banks on SWIFT".



SWIFT supports banks in the following areas:

SWIFT provides you services that cover your needs to interoperate with different  customers and market players: Corporates, High Value Payments Market Infrastructures, Retail Payments Market Infrastructures, Broker/Dealers, Investment Managers,  and Securities Market Infrastructures.

Across all business areas, SWIFT’s services and partners are available to support you with the adoption of a SWIFT solution: 

For full details please contact your Regional Account Manager or send an e-mail to swiftforbanks@swift.com.