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This year’s Swift Hackathon saw teams from around the world sharing new ideas to explore how standards can accelerate the adoption of digital assets.

As customer expectations continue to rise and financial services become increasingly digital, Swift at Sibos will explore how institutions can deliver better outcomes while maintaining the trust on which global finance depends.

Nine months after Swift announced plans to add a blockchain-based ledger to its technology stack, here’s how the industry came together to make it happen.

From 29 September to 2 October 2025, a record 12,400 participants came to Frankfurt to attend Sibos 2025. With the event now a month behind us, we reflect on what was discussed at this fantastic event.

Swift has partnered with 13 global banks to demonstrate how artificial intelligence and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) could help the industry tackle fraud in cross-border payments. In trials involving ten million artificial transactions, the collaborative model was twice as effective in real-time fraud detection compared to models trained on data from a single institution.

The last 12 months have seen the industry make great strides in its efforts to create a regulated digital asset ecosystem for traditional market participants.

Jack Pouderoyen, who leads our digital asset innovation, discusses the progress being made in scaling the tokenised securities market, and how we’re working with our community to facilitate interoperability and turn these ambitions into reality.

We’re launching an AI-powered enhancement to our Payment Controls Service (PCS) that will help banks detect potential fraud in real time.

Starting next year banks across North America, Europe, and Asia will embark on live trials of digital assets and currency transactions over the Swift network.

We’re paving the way towards real-world solutions that will enable our members to access and transact with regulated digital assets and currencies on the Swift network. This follows a series of groundbreaking experiments conducted with our community in recent years, which we’re now advancing to the next stage.

We’ve made great strides towards our vision for an instant and frictionless future. To ensure the financial ecosystem continues to thrive, we’ve laid out our strategy for 2024 and beyond. Thierry Chilosi, Chief Business Officer at Swift, unpacks what it means for the Swift community and the benefits it will bring for the global economy.

We’re launching two pilots to test the practical application of AI to enhance fraud detection in payments – all in collaboration with our global community.