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Citi chooses Swift to connect to T2S

Citi chooses Swift to connect to T2S

Securities,
31 October 2012 | 4 min read

Swift’s reliability, long-term commitment and competitive pricing for T2S drive Citi’s choice

Sibos, Osaka, 31 October 2012 – Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today announced that Citi will use Swift’s Value Added Network (VAN) solution to connect to T2S.

According to Citi, it has chosen Swift for a number of key reasons. First, Citi is confident it can depend on Swift – a long-standing provider of critical infrastructure to the financial industry – to provide highly reliable and robust connectivity to T2S.

Second, in line with its long-term commitment to reducing its customers’ operating costs, Swift is offering highly competitive pricing for T2S connectivity.

Third, the choice of Swift enables Citi to leverage its existing infrastructure for T2S – not only from an IT and operational perspective, but also in terms of the staff, expertise and processes required to successfully manage interactions with a business-critical infrastructure such as T2S.

Lee Waite, Global Head, Direct Custody and Clearing, Citi Transaction Services, says: “We are confident that Swift is the right T2S connectivity solution for Citi, bringing unmatched benefits in terms of resilience, price and infrastructure reuse, and we look forward to working closely with Swift to implement its solution to meet our specific needs. Being able to rely on Swift for connectivity and to make our choice of VAN provider early on means that we can now focus on delivering the best possible service to our customers to enable them to capitalise on the opportunities T2S brings.”

Alain Raes, Chief Executive, EMEA, Swift, comments: “We are delighted that Citi has decided to leverage Swift to connect to T2S, and we thank Citi for its confidence that Swift’s is the most reliable, cost effective and strategic solution for T2S connectivity. In the certainty that its T2S infrastructure can be relied upon, Citi can now focus on building the best model for customer delivery in a T2S world, and we look forward to providing other T2S participants with that same peace of mind.”

The objective of T2S is to facilitate post-trading integration by offering core, neutral, harmonised and commoditised delivery-versus-payment settlement in central bank money in substantially all securities in Europe. Swift’s VAN solution will enable T2S participants to connect to the T2S platform for the secure exchange of business information, in ISO 20022 format, with the highest resilience, at the best price and with the least upfront cost.

Swift has also created a full suite of services to support its customers in the transition to T2S, starting from analysis, and progressing through implementation, testing and migration, all the way to live operations. These services leverage Swift's unparalleled track record of managing technical platform migrations and securities market infrastructure initiatives. They also draw on Swift's unrivalled expertise in the ISO 20022 standards underpinning T2S communications.


About Sibos
Every year Sibos brings together influential leaders from financial institutions, market infrastructures, multinational corporations and technology partners to do business and shape the future of the financial industry. Facilitated and organised by Swift for the Swift community, Sibos is much more than a conference and exhibition. It is a unique forum to collaborate and take collective action in payments, securities, cash management and trade. With the power to draw some 7,000 participants from across the globe, Sibos is unparalleled in its reputation to reach the entire financial services industry. 

About Swift
Swift is a member-owned cooperative that provides the communications platform, products and services to connect more than 10,000 financial institutions and corporations in 212 countries and territories. Swift enables its users to exchange automated, standardised financial information securely and reliably, thereby lowering costs, reducing operational risk and eliminating operational inefficiencies. Swift also brings the financial community together to work collaboratively to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest.
For more information, please refer to our website www.swift.com or contact:

Ernest Chan     
Head of Media Relations, Asia Pacific, Swift  
+852 2107 8873     
ernest.chan@swift.com    

Bite Communications
Rosemary Merz
+852 2973 0222
rosemary.merz@bitecommunications.com

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