Collateral Management

Key benefits:
  • Minimise risk
  • Reduce costs
  • Maximise asset management
  • Enhance operational efficiency
  • Achieve scalability
Whether you are the exposed party, a triparty agent or a supplier of collateral, this solution provides the connectivity, standards and messaging services for all your collateral management transactions.

The case for conducting business on an increasingly collateralised basis is growing stronger and more compelling with the globalisation of financial activities. While the risk reduction potential is undisputed, the challenge for players is how to manage efficiency-cost ratios for the business. Enhancing straight-through processing through greater use of automation and common standards is key to addressing this industry challenge.

SWIFT's Collateral Management solution caters for:


  • All parties (collateral giver, collateral taker and agents)
  • All trade-generated exposures (eg, OTC derivatives)
  • All financing transactions (eg, RTG system, securities lending, repos)
  • All types of collateral (cash, securities and bank guarantees)
  • All major instruments and markets

Connect to your counterparties

With over 8,300 financial institutions, including the majority of players active in the collateral arena, SWIFT provides a single window to connect with your counterparty, either directly or via a triparty agent, using the same messaging standard.

Share a common language

Improve the efficiency of your collateral management transactions in a standardised way. Based on the ISO 15022 securities standard, SWIFT’s messages have been customised to cover the main transaction flows for collateral management, including:

  • Requests for collateral, return and/or substitution of collateral
  • Proposals and answers to proposals for collateral
  • Mark-to-market reporting for both the collateral

Secure and reliable messaging platform

SWIFT provides you with access to a fast, highly secure and reliable network. SWIFT sets the performance benchmark for the financial telecommunications industry. At SWIFT, we guarantee the safe and timely delivery of validated messages, from the moment they enter to the moment they leave our network. 

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For further details please contact your SWIFT Regional Account Manager or your nearest SWIFT office.