Skip to main content
  • English
    Discover SWIFT
  • Español
    Descubra nuestros contenidos en español
  • Français
    Découvrez notre contenu disponible en français
  • 中文
    了解我们提供的中文内容
  • 日本語
    日本で入手可能なコンテンツをお探しください
Swift updates reference data service

Swift updates reference data service

SwiftRef,
19 April 2017 | 4 min read

SwiftRef’s Bankers World Online query tool undergoes a facelift, adds improved search fields and simplified navigation for easier access to reference data

This press release is also available in Spanish

Brussels, 19 April, 2017 - Swift announces the launch of a significant information architecture and visual redesign for its online reference data tool, Bankers World Online. As SwiftRef’s flagship service, the latest version of Bankers World Online has been designed to heighten customers’ overall navigation and user experience. 

SwiftRef, the global reference data utility is a highly-secure platform offering the financial industry a single and unique source for the reference data and financial information needed for seamless payments processing, accurate regulatory reporting, counterparty risk analysis and due diligence. The Bankers World Online service includes essential reference data, including all Swift BIC codes, national bank sort codes, IBAN (International Bank Account Number) identifiers, global Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI), and more that are used to facilitate international payments and fulfil new reporting requirements. It also includes important financial information from market data vendors and credit rating agencies, including credit ratings, shareholder information, balance sheet information, cash flows, and many more data sets about customers, suppliers and service providers.  

The new-look Bankers World Online has undergone an entire revamp of its user interface, with the addition of improved search fields and seamless navigation for the customer. It has been designed so that professionals can more quickly and easily source the reference data needed to populate domestic, SEPA and international payments correctly, validate identifiers used in regulatory reports and find information to evaluate current and potential counterparty risk. This major overhaul was the result of carefully thought-out cross divisional and customer research, and collaboration between IT, UX and Marketing experts. The redesigning process engaged clients, non-clients and expert teams from Swift to feed their input into the design process.

Hervé Valentin, Head of SwiftRef, says, “Bankers World Online has a key role to play in achieving our 2020 SwiftRef growth ambition. Beyond providing key data, we want to offer a great customer experience which will support our clients’ businesses. The new release of Bankers World Online is an important step in achieving this objective. Through a careful design process involving many clients and insight from various Swift teams, we can better understand the industry challenges and respond by regularly building improvements into our tools.”

Bankers World Online has a key role to play in achieving our 2020 SwiftRef growth ambition. Beyond providing key data, we want to offer a great customer experience which will support our clients’ businesses.

  Hervé Valentin, Head of SwiftRef

About Swift
Swift is a global member-owned cooperative and the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services. We provide our community with a platform for messaging, standards for communicating and we offer products and services to facilitate access and integration; identification, analysis and financial crime compliance. Our messaging platform, products and services connect more than 11,000 banking and securities organisations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries and territories, enabling them to communicate securely and exchange standardised financial messages in a reliable way. As their trusted provider, we facilitate global and local financial flows, support trade and commerce all around the world; we relentlessly pursue operational excellence and continually seek ways to lower costs, reduce risks and eliminate operational inefficiencies. Headquartered in Belgium, Swift’s international governance and oversight reinforces the neutral, global character of its cooperative structure. Swift’s global office network ensures an active presence in all the major financial centres.


For more information, visit www.swift.com or follow us on Twitter: @swiftcommunity and LinkedIn: Swift

Contacts:  

Cognito
swift@cognitomedia.com 
+44 (0)20 7426 9400

Loading...