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At Sibos 2025, industry experts explored the forces shaping next frontiers of global finance. Catch up on all the insights on demand, today.

Experience Swift at Sibos

Opening plenary: Swift introduces blockchain-based ledger

At Swift, our mission has always been to continually innovate and elevate the cross-border payments experience. Today, we are taking a pivotal step forward: adding a blockchain-based shared ledger to our technology infrastructure.

Sibos 2025: Swift introduces blockchain-based ledger

Sibos 2025 opening plenary with Javier Pérez-Tasso

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I'm very pleased to announce that we will add a blockchain-based ledger to our technology infrastructure to allow for trusted movement of tokenised value across the digital ecosystems.
Javier Pérez-Tasso
Javier Pérez-Tasso
Chief Executive Officer, Swift

Payment experience – excellence from start to finish

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    Rewriting the rules: A bold step towards predictable, instant and transparent cross-border payments

  • The G20 Grand Prix: Who's the real winner?
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    The G20 Grand Prix: Who's the real winner?

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    Debopama Sen, Citi and Thierry Chilosi, Swift - Rewriting the rules: A bold step towards predictable, instant and transparent cross-border payments

  • Cooperation and standardisation: Reducing friction in global end-to-end transparency
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    Cooperation and standardisation: Reducing friction in global end-to-end transparency

  • Industry collaboration on regulatory harmonisation
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    Industry collaboration on regulatory harmonisation

  • G20 goals: Case studies on market practices and regulatory requirements impacting speed
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    G20 goals: Case studies on market practices and regulatory requirements impacting speed

  • Treasury insights: How corporates are transforming the front-end payments experience
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    Treasury insights: How corporates are transforming the front-end payments experience

Delivering interoperability in a fragmented world

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    How will digital assets reshape the future of global finance?

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    Manish Kohli, HSBC and Thierry Chilosi, Swift - Laying the foundations: Setting out the vision for Swift’s new ledger

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    Interoperability in digital assets: Let’s make it happen!

  • Progressive interoperability for resilient digital economies of tomorrow
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    Progressive interoperability for resilient digital economies of tomorrow

  • Interoperating platforms: Realising the opportunity of new models
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    Interoperating platforms: Realising the opportunity of new models

  • Enabling seamless customer experience in trade: Transparency, efficiency and digitisation
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    Enabling seamless customer experience in trade: Transparency, efficiency and digitisation

Laying the foundations: Setting out the vision for Swift’s new ledger

The session shows how the new blockchain-based shared ledger, developed with the global banking community, will deliver trusted, scalable infrastructure to support 24/7 real-time interbank cross-border payments. The panel highlights the industry collaboration behind this initiative and the opportunities it creates across regions.

Laying the foundations: Setting out the vision for Swift’s new ledger

Laying the foundations: Setting out the vision for Swift’s new ledger

Shaping the future of the global financial ecosystem

  • AI-powered transactions: Exploring how to navigate hype, hurdles and harvest in payments, trade and securities
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    AI-powered transactions: Exploring how to navigate hype, hurdles and harvest in payments, trade and securities

  • Evolving operational excellence in the age of cyber and quantum threats
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    Evolving operational excellence in the age of cyber and quantum threats

  • Smart transaction monitoring using AI for payment anomalies
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    Smart transaction monitoring using AI for payment anomalies

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    Interoperating digital currencies: Solving for the diversity of money

Realising the potential of rich data

  • Unlocking seamless customer experience through rich data insights
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    Unlocking seamless customer experience through rich data insights

  • The journey to rich data: What’s next for ISO 20022
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    The journey to rich data: What’s next for ISO 20022

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    Efficiency and data monetisation cases for ISO 20022

Enabling efficiency in securities settlement

  • Corporate actions: Breaking the automation barrier
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    Corporate actions: Breaking the automation barrier

  • Reduced settlement cycles & improved global efficiencies: A reality?
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    Reduced settlement cycles and improved global efficiencies: A reality?

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