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Standards

Standards are a core element of SWIFT's global offering. We offer a range of SWIFT Standards products, tools and services to support the financial industry. SWIFT is committed to the collaboration of efforts and interoperability of standards, so that our community can benefit from potential cost savings, eliminate inefficiencies and smoothly expand into previously untapped markets.

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Advance Information for ISO 20022 Corporate Actions and Settlement & Reconciliation now available
SWIFT Standards have completed the reverse engineering of ISO 15022 messages into ISO 20022

The Standards Forum comes to London
On 4 February 2010 we will continue to raise the level of the dialogue about coexistence and migration

Are you ready for the Standards MT Release 2009?
The Standards MT Release 2009 goes live on 21 November 2009

Business transactions

We offer a range of standards to support the financial industry. For a snapshot of the current availability and development status of Standards for each business transaction, see to the relevant pages below.

Payments Payments Customer payments and cash management Financial institution payments and cash management Service Level Agreements (SLAs)	Trade services Trade services management Documentary credits, collections and guarantees
Securities Pre-trade, trade and post-trade Settlement and reconciliation Corporate actions Proxy voting Investment funds Collateral management Securities lending and borrowing	Trading Foreign exchange Derivatives Loans and deposits Syndications Precious metals

In standards

Implementing standards SWIFT provides a range of business and technical information to help customers and partners integrate standards.	Standards releases SWIFT maintains the functionality of existing standards and to bring existing standards into line with business changes.	Community relationships SWIFT reaches out to many organisations within the financial industry and beyond to promote harmonisation and interoperability.
Standards Forum The Standards Forum is well-established as the place where business and standardisation meets during Sibos.	More information Inventory of MT and MX messages, Standards Working Groups, MX Concepts, printed brochures, etc.