Standards Forum

The Standards Forum is the place where business and standardisation meet. This group would like to facilitate and encourage dialogue around standardisation in the financial industry, and share views, insights and updates on how financial standards can contribute to reducing cost and increasing efficiency when tackling today's challenges such as automation, compliance, and regulation.

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

New technologies and business standards

At the occasion of the 2017 Standards Forum to be held at Sibos in Toronto, Canada from 16 to 19 October, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. During the coming weeks, my posts will offer readers a sneak-preview of what people can expect to hear about in Toronto. During recent Standards For...

12 September 2017

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

ISO 20022 as innovation enabler

At the occasion of the 2017 Standards Forum to be held at Sibos in Toronto, Canada from 16 to 19 October, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. During the coming weeks, my posts will offer readers a sneak-preview of what people can expect to hear about in Toronto. In this post, I interviewed...

22 August 2017 /sibos

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

Highlights and approach of the 2017 Sibos Standards Forum

At the occasion of the 2017 Standards Forum to be held at Sibos in Toronto, Canada from 16 to 19 October, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. During the coming weeks, my posts will offer readers a sneak-preview of what people can expect to hear about in Toronto. In this first post, I inter...

07 August 2017 /sibos

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

Standards are more than messages

At the occasion of the 2016 Standards Forum to be held from 26 to 29 September in Geneva, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. As each of the four days will focus on a specific theme, my four blog posts will offer readers a sneak-preview of what people can expect to hear about. Day 4: Sta...

19 September 2016 /sibos

Retired Member 

The Need for Messaging Standards in Blockchain

As financial firms are compelled to deploy Blockchain technologies to satisfy client demand and to participate in market initiatives, many questions arise. According to a recent white paper produced jointly by SWIFT and Accenture, one of the main shortcomings of the technology, as applied to financial services, is the lack of data governance, espe...

16 September 2016

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

Standards and initiatives

At the occasion of the 2016 Standards Forum to be held from 26 to 29 September in Geneva, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. As each of the four days will focus on a specific theme, my four blog posts will offer readers a sneak-preview of what people can expect to hear about. Day 3: Sta...

12 September 2016 /payments /sibos

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

The financial industry's landscape and roadmaps

At the occasion of the 2016 Standards Forum to be held from 26 to 29 September in Geneva, I interviewed a number of SWIFT standards experts about the content of this year's programme. As each of the four days will focus on a specific theme, my four blog posts will offer readers a sneak-preview of what people can expect to hear about. Day 1: Lan...

30 August 2016 /payments /regulation

Paul Miserez Standards Department at SWIFT

SWIFT MT standards Change Request Forum

During the SWIFT Chairpersons' meeting at Sibos 2015, several delegates 　expressed their desire to compare notes on MT standards change requests (CRs), before the critical meetings at which they get finalised ahead of the final country vote. Some of the feedback we received was that "not enough people are actually reading and thinking about t...

26 May 2016 /sibos

Retired Member 

Standards Forum Wrap-Up

It took me 51 hours to get home from Singapore. Don’t ask! Before I arrived back in San Francisco the good folks in SWIFT Standards were already busy comparing notes and transcribing the snapshots of the white board from each session. The fruits of this labor are now available for all to see. See here: https://swift.emsecure.net/images/Teams/sta...

23 December 2015

Retired Member 

SR2016

The results are in. 43 approved Change Requests impacting 60 message types for a total of 201 changes altogether. Sounds high, 43, doesn’t it? Well, it is 50% higher than 2015, but significantly less than the two releases prior to that. So perhaps against that background, 43 isn’t so bad. Here are some of the highlights… No changes in cat-1 and...

19 December 2015