Swift innovation enables CBDCs to move seamlessly on existing financial infrastructure and efficiently scale for international transactions across more than 200 countries 18 central and commercial banks encourage continued development after nearly 5,000 CBDC-to-CBDC and CBDC-to-fiat simulations over 12-week period Swift will build beta version for further testing and explore additional use cases in securities settlement and trade finance

Launched in January, Swift Securities View enables clear tracking across all steps of the settlement process 34 of world’s biggest institutions have signed up, representing 630 million securities transactions per year Global participants include HSBC, BNY Mellon, and Nomura Asset Management

Figures released on the eve of the 22nd Swift African Regional Conference provide evidence of Africa’s growth and development of intra-Africa corridors.

Your MyStandards questions answered

Stephen Gilderdale, Head of UK, Ireland and Nordics, and Tony Wicks, Head of AML Initiatives, discuss how Swift’s Customer Security Programme and financial crime compliance services portfolio are helping members bolster cyber security for themselves, their counterparties and the community.

… completing the Distributed Architecture programme; and following its launch in 2011 FIN Renewal remains well …

With Swift2020, the cooperative aims to deliver even more to its community.

China Minsheng Bank, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase are latest to go live to support small businesses and consumers with fast, secure, predictable cross-border payments Rapid adoption of Swift Go since launch in July reinforces Swift strategy for instant, frictionless cross-border transactions

Dubai, 17 September 2013