SWIFT Matters

A community that concentrates on SWIFT as an important business tool in the payments and standards world.

Haohan Xu CEO at Apifiny

It's About Time: Disruptive Settlement Technologies Are Coming to Banks

The race is on to reinvent settlement. As customer demands for faster settlement times increase, and new technologies come online, banks are under pressure to meet their clients’ heightened needs It's been more than 20 years since the Internet’s arrival transformed the way people access information, manifested in search engines that deliver the wor...

11 June 2020 /payments /startups

Rajiv Desai SVP - US Operations at Pelican

Ready for ISO 20022? Make AI part of your migration toolkit

The ISO 20022 messaging standard will enable rapid payments processing and global settlement, with interoperability across many payments infrastructures. As we move closer to the migration deadline across various jurisdictions and regions, the technology challenges for managing the messaging format migration are becoming increasingly clear. As or...

18 March 2020 /payments /regulation

Rolf Hauge CEO at Commercial Banking Applications (CBA)

Ready for SWIFT Releases 2020 and 2021?

Following the relatively straightforward implementation of SWIFT Release 2019 this November, are you ready for the more complex requirements of SWIFT Releases 2020 and 2021? Here I’ll summarise what’s in store across both Trade Finance and Payments for 2020 and beyond. It’s worth noting that the impact of the changes planned for November 2021 are...

05 December 2019 /payments /regulation

Domenico Scaffidi Payments Industry Expert -CEO & Founder at DS Payments Ltd

SWIFT gpi: the build vs buy debate

As the world moves towards a more global way of doing business, banks and financial institutions need the capability to move money around efficiently, transparently and in a cost effective manner and in doing so, ensuring that liquidity doesn’t get locked away. Cross-border payments however have historically been the opposite of this - with single...

21 November 2019 /payments

Retired Member 

Another Day at SIBOS 2019

On the first day of Sibos My TB gave to me A current account and OD facility On the second day of Sibos My Transaction Banker gave to me Two virtual accounts And A current account and OD facility The second day of SIBOS started off with a session on polictical uncertainty, Brexit and its impact on Banks and mentioned that waves of nationalism an...

25 September 2019

Retired Member 

Swift takes the first steps with Distributed Ledger Technology

Swift has announced a proof-of-concept trial to link distributed ledger-based trade networks to its payments network. The industry reaction concentrates, not on the functionality or advantages, but the implied acknowledgement that DLT/blockchain is now mature enough for mainstream use. That might be stretching it a bit: but the announcement is si...

08 February 2019 /payments

Rolf Hauge CEO at Commercial Banking Applications (CBA)

Now SWIFT Release 2018’s done, are you ready for SWIFT Release 2019?

For the first time in many years SWIFT’s MT Standards Release for 2018 (SR2018) incorporated a number of significant changes for banks’ trade finance operations. For many banks it presented a real test of how well they had planned and implemented their trade finance technology solutions for incorporating updates in a more and more demanding marke...

14 January 2019 /wholesale

Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide

What's next for SWIFT gpi and cross-border real-time payments?

SWIFT gpi poses many opportunities for banks. Like any technology, the rate of change is accelerating, making it critical that banks keep pace with the market and with their competition. In 2018, as domestic real-time payments schemes reach near-ubiquity thanks to a combination of regulatory and customer demand drivers, we have seen an accelerated...

24 September 2018 /payments

Retired Member 

The Clock is Ticking: Are You Ready for SWIFT’s CSP?

Remember the days of being assigned a paper to write when you were in school? You’d be given months to complete it and yet somehow you always found yourself, on the weekend before the deadline, scrambling to get it done Ok, well maybe the last minute approach was just me. But just in case, don’t forget that there’s another deadline looming that can...

13 October 2017 /security /sibos

Retired Member 

What happened to prudent banking practice?

Recent events in the international payments world have highlighted yet again the confusion over SWIFT’s responsibilities in the payments chain. SWIFT was created to send payments instructions from a sender and a receiver. Over the past 40 years that basic role of SWIFT has not changed. SWIFT’s major contribution to the payments world was the work ...

23 May 2016 /payments /regulation