Ant International has joined Swift’s Network Interoperability Reference Implementation program, becoming part of a select group of global payment service providers (PSPs) working to enhance interoperability across cross-border payment systems. The initiative, announced on Friday, is structured as a pre-pilot designed to improve payment transparency… Read More
Swift, UBS Asset Management, and Chainlink have completed a pilot for settling tokenized fund subscriptions and redemptions using the Swift network. This initiative would reportedly enable digital asset transactions to settle with fiat payment systems across more than 11,500 FIs, across 200+ countries and territories…. Read More
Nium, the infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, has recently announced that financial institutions are now able to leverage the Swift capabilities and their existing Swift infrastructure to connect to Nium’s global real-time payments network. This connection provides a cost-effective solution for financial institutions to connect… Read More
Swift is planning to roll out new AI-enhanced fraud detection for the global payments industry. It will be available in January 2025. The new capability builds on Swift’s existing Payment Controls Service by drawing on pseudonymized data from the billions of transactions that flow over… Read More
Swift has announced that central and commercial banks may use the Swift network to carry out trial transactions of digital currencies and digital assets. The project kicks off in 2025. The digitization of assets has been ongoing for years. Digital assets can take many forms,… Read More
Swift and Wise (LSE:WISE) says they will increase cross-border payment options for financial institutions and their customers, enabling payments sent via Swift to be completed over Wise with end-to-end transparency. Financial institutions seeking to innovate their offerings “will be able to route Swift payment messages… Read More
Nomentia, a European firm focused on treasury and cash management solutions, is becoming one of the first vendors to provide Swift’s Business Connect service to its current and future clients. This service empowers Nomentia clients with seamless Swift connectivity, “supported by Nomentia’s dedicated and comprehensive… Read More
The co-founder of a cloud platform for global card processing insists that recent payment systems outages are the price the world pays for widely used yet outdated infrastructure. Robert Kraal is the CBDO of Silverflow, which offers a cloud-native solution with a single API for… Read More
Laura Bayley, Head Clearing Services, SIX, has been appointed as new SWIFT Board Member, the world’s provider of secure financial messaging services. SWIFT’s Board composition is designed to “ensure SWIFT‘s global relevance, support its international reach and uphold its strict neutrality.” Laura Bayley is Head… Read More
Swift has set out plans to help financial institutions streamline the cross-border payment experience for their corporate customers by “extending ISO 20022 across the entire payment chain and giving banks ready-to-use, white-labeled tracking services that can be activated for customers at the click of a… Read More
Swift announced the findings of the second phase of industry-wide sandbox testing on its central bank digital currency (CBDC) interlinking solution, with the results showing that its connector can enable financial institutions to carry out a wide range of financial transactions using CBDCs and other… Read More
Swift announced it has been selected to build a service that will reduce the risk of misdirected payments and increase defenses against payment fraud, providing Australians with more confidence when sending money. Swift, which built and runs the NPP, was chosen by Australian Payments Plus… Read More
Swift says it has finally brought 24/7 global payments to life for transfers destined to Europe. According to a statement by Swift, the European Payment Council’s One-Leg-Out Instant Credit Transfer scheme (OCT Inst), now enables payments to and from Europe to be processed 24 hours… Read More
Fiserv, Inc. (NYSE: FI), a global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, has expanded its longstanding relationship with Swift by joining the Swift Partner Program as a Platform Partner. As a Partner, Fiserv will “enable connectivity to Swift APIs and enhance support for… Read More
Swift, a global financial messaging service that is used by just about everyone to transfer value, has partnered with Wise (LSE:WISE) – a stealth bank that got its start in low-cost transfers. According to a statement by Swift, the partnership will enable users to complete… Read More
Swift, a global financial services firm that is relied upon by more than 11,500 financial services organizations around the world, has announced a successful blockchain test deemed to show the potential for tokenized assets in the future. According to a statement by Swift, an experiment… Read More
Swift announced strong progress toward goals set by the G20 for enhancing cross-border payments, reporting that 89% of transactions processed on its network reach recipient banks within an hour. That’s ahead of speed targets “set by the Financial Stability Board to achieve one-hour processing for… Read More
Nexpay, a Lithuanian Electronic Money Institution (EMI) providing business banking solutions for digital companies, has announced its enhanced service offering by adding SWIFT payments in 23 currencies. This strategic move caters “to the evolving needs of digital businesses worldwide and advances Nexpay‘s ambition to bring… Read More
Swift announced further progress on its experimental solution for interlinking Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), reporting that 18 central and commercial banks found “clear potential and value” in the API-based CBDC connector after a comprehensive review. The cooperative “published the findings of the 12-week period… Read More
SWIFT and MonetaGo have achieved an important milestone in the global fight against fraud and duplicate financing, “with the live launch of the Trade Financing Validation Service provided by MonetaGo over the global SWIFT network.” This is “the first third party service, in trade, available… Read More
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