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Beyond messaging

Business

SWIFT develops business standards to support transactions in the financial markets for payments, securities, treasury and trade services. Our traditional MT messages are complemented with ISO 20022 XML-based (MX) messages, which enable the transfer of richer data for more complex business transactions.

Payments	Securities
Customer payments and cash management Financial institution payments and cash management	Pre-trade, trade and post-trade Settlement and reconciliation Corporate actions Proxy voting Investment funds Collateral management Lending and borrowing

Trade services	Trading
Trade services management Documentary credits, collections and guarantees	Foreign exchange Derivatives Loans and deposits Syndications Commodities

Community relations

SWIFT reaches out to many organisations within the financial industry and beyond to promote harmonisation and interoperability. SWIFT further supports international standardisation in its role as Registration Authority for:

ISO 9362 - BIC - codes for business entity identification
ISO 10383 - MIC - codes for exchanges and market identification
ISO 13616 - IBAN - International bank account number
ISO 15022 - Securities message scheme
ISO 20022 - Universal financial industry message scheme

User Handbook
Inventory of MT and MX messages