This page gives real-time information on the status of SWIFT's systems and messaging services, as well as information on recovery plans during outages. It also gives the planning of the scheduled network downtime and of weekends during which SWIFT performs business continuity tests. You can subscribe to receive by e-mail the updates of the operational status or use our RSS feed to be notified of the maintenance of our services.
SWIFT's systems and services are offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week. See our availability statistics below:
Availability by service
Feb 2010
Feb 2010
FIN
100%
100%
SWIFTNet
100%
100%
This table shows the availability percentages of the FIN and SWIFTNet core services, as well as the year-to-date (YTD) percentages. These statistics are produced on a monthly basis. View the monthly report for 2010 here.
Planned maintenance on the SWIFTNet Integration Testbed
SWIFT organises planned maintenance on the SWIFTNet Integration Testbed (ITB) environment every Friday, from 12:00 GMT to Saturday 08:00 GMT.
Planned maintenance of the Alliance Lite service
SWIFT organises planned maintenance of the Alliance Lite service every weekend. The maintenance begins on Saturday at 05:00 GMT and lasts until Sunday 17:00 GMT. During this period, the Alliance Lite service may be unavailable for the whole duration of the planned downtime, or only intermittently.
SWIFT organises planned maintenance of the Alliance Lite Test service every Tuesday. The maintenance begins at 12:00 GMT and lasts until 16:00 GMT. During this period, the Alliance Lite Test service may be unavailable for the whole duration of the planned downtime, or only intermittently.
Planned maintenance on swift.com
From Wednesday 17 March at 08:00 till Friday 19 March at 08:10, the Search engines of swift.com (incl User Handbook and Knowledge Base) will return incomplete results.
Due to planned maintenance on swift.com, the following applications will be down:
On Thursday 18 March 2010 between 08:00 GMT and 09:10 GMT: the swift.com, User Handbook, and Knowledge Base Search engines
On Saturday 03 April 2010 between 16:30 GMT and 24:00 GMT: Case Manager, Manage your profile, Secure Channel, e-mail notification for connectivity issues
Planned maintenance of the SWIFTNet messaging services
SWIFT organises planned maintenance, and business continuity testing, which occur during Allowable Downtime Windows (ADW). These maintenance windows and test windows begin on Saturday at 16:00 GMT. During the maintenance windows, the SWIFTNet messaging services (FIN, InterAct, FileAct and Browse) are subject to interruption as described below:
Maintenance window: during these periods, which can last for 2, 8 or 12 hours, the SWIFTNet messaging services may experience intermittent periods of connectivity loss or of service interruption. Exceptionally, longer periods of service disruption may occur within the window.
Business continuity testing, and cold start testing: during these tests, which can last for 12 hours, the SWIFTNet messaging services are subject to short interruptions. Extended interruptions may occur for the duration of the window.
Please consult the table below for the exact start times and end times of the ADWs.
