As the costs of settlement fails rise, the industry is increasingly using the Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI) to enhance end-to-end transparency across the securities settlement chain.

Settlement fails are becoming increasingly expensive. And firms around the world are putting settlement efficiency at the top of their agendas as many markets transition to shorter settlement cycles. Learn more about how Nomura Asset Management are tackling this head on by adopting the Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI) and Swift Securities View.

Sibos, Dubai, 16 September 2013 – Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 212 countries and territories, today announced at Sibos that Bank of America Merrill Lynch has joined its Early Adopter Programme for the Japan Securities Depository Centre (JASDEC), the country’s central securities depository.

To help you prepare for the move to ISO20022, we are taking a number of initiatives to facilitate interoperability between MT and ISO 20022 messages during the coexistence period.

Joint Swift and BCG report finds growing momentum for API technology as firms seek more efficiency and new service offerings

Experts from Societe Generale, Roche, ACI Worldwide and Swift came together at Sibos in London to explore how universal payment confirmations will benefit global trade.

NEW YORK, June 25, 2012 ─ Swift, the financial messaging provider for more than 10,000 financial institutions and corporations in 210 countries, today announced that J.P. Morgan, BBVA and Santander are adopting 3SKey for authentication and digital signatures in Latin America. As the first banks to offer the solution within the region this development furthers Swift’s strategy to enable its customers to benefit from 3SKey on a global basis.

Brussels, 21 May 2012 – Swift CEO Lázaro Campos has notified the Board of his intention to leave the company. After 25 years with the company, the last five of which were successful years as CEO, it is his intention to pursue opportunities outside Swift. Under his leadership, Swift embarked on an ambitious growth and transformational strategy (Swift2015), almost doubling volumes, maintaining excellent operational performance while successfully reducing costs by 30%, and prices by 50%.

This year, Swift marks 40 years of supporting the financial services community in Asia Pacific. As a trusted partner for the global financial community, we work to continuously drive innovation that helps our community to move value securely, reliably and seamlessly across borders around the world.

Forty years ago, Swift went live in Singapore. Since then, we have continued to be a trusted partner for the Singapore and global financial communities, as we work to continuously drive innovation that helps our users move value securely, reliably and seamlessly across borders around the world. We recognise that none of this would have been possible without the strong support of our community in Singapore.