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These four trends are shaping the payments landscape. Collaboration is key to keeping it connected, Jonathan Ehrenfeld, Head of Strategy at Swift explains.

With the November 2025 deadline for payments instructions fast approaching, Barclays shares insights from their ISO 20022 migration journey, adopting the ISO 20022 Rulebook for Payment Initiation Relay, and highlight the importance of collaboration.

Discover our new services, developed in collaboration with 25 leading banks and 26 corporates across various sectors and regions, to enhance the payment experience in corporate banking.

The future of payments is evolving. We spoke to the Bank of Cyprus to learn more about how they made the leap to ISO 20022 and the steps they took to achieve a successful adoption.

Adopting the new global standard for payments is more important than ever. As the financial industry moves closer to ISO 20022’s November 2025 deadline, we spoke to DBS Bank to reflect on the successes of their adoption journey.

Adopting the new global standard for payments is more important than ever. As the financial industry moves closer to the CBPR+ November 2025 deadline, see what’s new.

A new report from Economist Impact, supported by Swift, highlights the growing cost of financial fragmentation on countries, economies, businesses, and people’s lives. Learn more about the causes and critical steps public and private sector stakeholders can take to mitigate the impact.

The MT/ISO 20022 cross-border co-existence period is coming to an end. We spoke to Diamond Trust Bank to explore how adopting the global ISO 20022 messaging standard can help financial institutions unlock strategic benefits.

We’ve been working with over 30 financial institutions to demonstrate how Swift solutions can help raise the standard of cross-border payments for end customers. Now, we take a look at the results of this initiative and unpack how we’re enabling the entire industry to benefit.

Swift is supporting the industry-wide digitisation journey with a number of initiatives to enhance API standardisation, scale the use of digital trade documents, and ultimately enable the interoperability of trade transactions globally.