Sibos

Overview

Sibos 2025 may be over, but what an event it was.

With a record-breaking 12,400+ delegates in attendance, it was a year to remember – with over 500 experts speakers taking to the stage to share insights and move finance forward.

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What we covered at Sibos 2025

The Sibos 2025 agenda was packed full of content – cutting-edge insights, expert-led sessions, and real-world strategies to help navigate today’s complex financial landscape. The programme focused on the following themes:

^{Payment experience: Excellence from start to finish}
How are financial institutions are delivering seamless, secure, and instant payment journeys?

^{Delivering interoperability in a fragmented world}
As digital economies evolve and value takes new forms, connecting diverse systems and infrastructures is more vital than ever. How is Swift helping to unite a rapidly fragmenting landscape?

^{Realising the potential of rich data}
Financial players are already unlocking the power of ISO 20022 and other data-led initiatives. Learn how this is driving intelligence, innovation, and efficiency.

^{Enabling efficiency in securities settlement}
Hear how the community is modernising post-trade processes to improve speed, reduce risk, and support sustainable growth.

^{Shaping the future of the global financial ecosystem}
We heard conversations on emerging technologies, digital assets, and the evolving roles of key players in a rapidly transforming landscape.

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Programme

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Europe/Berlin

Standards Forum

Beyond migration: The strategic value of structured data, interoperability and the next milestones in the ISO 20022 roadmap

ISO 20022 is no longer just a migration programme; it is becoming the foundation for the next phase of payments transformation. This session takes a strategic view of what richer structured data can unlock across compliance, customer experience and cross-border efficiency, and why interoperability still matters as ecosystems evolve at different speeds. The discussion will also look ahead to future message enhancements, market-practice alignment and how the industry can manage the next roadmap in a coordinated way.

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11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Standards Forum

Finishing what we started: Why E&I is the next critical step in the CBPR+ roadmap

CBPR+ has transformed how cross-border payment instructions are exchanged, introducing richer data and stronger alignment with ISO 20022. However, the journey is not over. We now turn our attention to the next phase of this migration – how we can harness the power of structured data and enhanced orchestration for exceptions and investigations (E&I) and payment cancellation messages. In this session, we’ll discover how evolving standards support efficient investigation processing and orchestration. We’ll also cover how Case Management brings faster resolution times and enhanced transparency. With November 2027 marking the end of this transformation, you’ll learn how to prepare for and realise the benefits of ISO 20022 for E&I.

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01:30 PM - 02:15 PM Europe/Berlin

Standards Forum

The identity layer of financial markets: Everyone agrees, so why is it still difficult?

Financial markets increasingly depend on the ability to connect data, transactions and events across business domains, infrastructures and participants. From Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) and Unique Transaction Identifiers (UTIs) to Unique End-to-End Transaction References (UETRs), settlement references and emerging transaction identifiers. Shared identity is becoming essential for interoperability, traceability, and coordination across payments, securities, FX and derivatives. Yet despite broad industry agreement on the value of identifiers, implementation remains uneven and fragmented. Why is shared identity still so difficult to achieve in practice? Are the barriers primarily technical, operational, economic or regulatory? And what does this reveal about how markets coordinate change? This session explores the role of identifiers as the identity layer of financial markets, examines why execution continues to lag despite clear benefits and discusses what lessons can be drawn from both successful and incomplete adoption initiatives across domains.

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