Delivering major milestones towards instant and frictionless transactions
Following significant momentum in 2021, the industry is set for accelerated transformation in 2022 with ISO 20022 migration and the activation of Swift’s evolving platform.
Swift India appoints Kiran Shetty as CEO
Appointment further strengthens leadership following the go live of the Swift India domestic financial messaging platform
Is a payment a payment
At the end of the day each payment involves the transfer of money from one account to another. But I would argue that a payment includes more than that. It includes a number of aspects that can differ by payment.
Swift at Sibos 2022: High stakes in low-value payments: Time to go all-in
In this session, we’ll look at how banks are going all-in to meet the needs of their small business and retail customers when moving money across borders, and show you how you can too.
Successful testing paves way for CBDC use cross-border
Central and commercial banks see “clear potential and value” in Swift’s pioneering CBDC interoperability solution, following successful testing in a sandbox environment.
Four Asian banks go live on Swift GPI
Swift announces that four new Asian banks have gone live on its global payments initiative (gpi) in June. This follows the announcement of ten live Chinese banks on gpi earlier this month.
RMB Tracker
What does the internationalisation of the RMB mean for your business? Follow the developing story with our monthly market updates
Managing risk, achieving regulatory compliance
Treasury plays a key role in defending the organisation against fraud and cyber attack given the scale and sensitivity of the transactions and data it manages and responsibility for managing bank accounts.
Secure bank connectivity and effective operational controls are essential lines of defense against fraudsters and cyber criminals.
Stringent regulations to enforce sanctions, and prevent financing of terrorism and money laundering, are vital to a trusted financial system. However,…
Learning from a ‘back-office revolution’ that transformed post-trade processing
New academic research from the Swift Institute follows the transformation of UK clearing and settlement processes across CREST’s 20-year history
Payment "tokens": a route to optimizing liquidity management?
This paper examines the opportunities for better management of intra-day and overnight liquidity in financial markets, using ‘tokenised’ rather than tiered money deposited with bank counterparts.
PAYMENT ‘TOKENS’: A ROUTE TO OPTIMIZING LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT?