Swift’s figures show an average of 31.31 million messages a day in 2018 as its annual traffic rose to an all-time high of over 7.8 billion. This marks an 11.3% increase on 2017 – and a 56% increase over the last five years.
Traffic growth was driven by the mass adoption of Swift GPI – which now accounts for over half (55%) of cross-border payment instructions carried on the network, only two years since its launch.
Growth in Swift’s payments traffic was strong in all regions as well as in domestic and cross-border segments. The cooperative also recorded a new peak traffic day in 2018, processing 35.22 million FIN messages on 31 May 2018.
