Swift - News, Articles & Research

How ESG and DEI strengthen the drive towards frictionless cross-border payments

Sara Solana, Senior Relationship Manager for Iberia at Swift, speaks at EBAday 2023 about the cooperative’s focus on driving instant and frictionless cross-border transactions. We discuss how DEI and ESG are an integral part of this strategy and what can be done at an industry level to ensure continued progress.

29 June 2023

News/payments

Swift steps up blockchain experimentation

Swift is working with more than a dozen financial institutions and market infrastructures to test the use of its messaging network as a means to instruct the transfer of tokenised value over a range of public and private blockchain networks.

07 June 2023

Company announcement/cloud

IntellectEU becomes AWS Services Delivery Partner for Swift connectivity

IntellectEU, an innovator in digital finance and emerging technologies, is now an Amazon Web Services (AWS) services delivery partner.

25 May 2023

Finextra TV/devops

Exploring the advantages of Interoperability in Financial Services

Shriyanka Hore, Managing Director and Product Tribe Lead, Market Infrastructures, MI Communities and Standards Services, Swift, discusses the rising prominence of interoperability in financial services. Offering insights into central bank and market infrastructure initiatives, the challenges and opportunities posed and the future of payments in the industry.

04 May 2023

News/payments

NextGen Nordics: Beyond P27, there is still hope for Nordic harmonisation

NextGen Nordics 2023 kicked off with a panel on the challenges and opportunities in the road for harmonisation across transaction banking services.

25 April 2023

Company announcement/people

Swift names JP Morgan's Graeme Munro non-executive chair

The Swift Board of Directors today announced new leadership, with the election of J.P. Morgan’s Graeme Munro as non-Executive Chair and Samantha Emery of Lloyds Banking Group as non-Executive Deputy Chair at its regular meeting this week.

30 March 2023

News/wholesale

Swift hails results of blockchain pilot for corporate actions data

Interbank co-operative Swift has successfully completed its blockchain-based corporate actions pilot, describing it as a "compelling solution".

24 March 2023

Company announcement/cloud

Eastnets migrates Americas Swift and sanctions screening infrastructure to Microsoft Azure

Eastnets, a global leader in compliance and payment solutions for the financial services industry, is responding to the increasingly complex and rapidly evolving financial landscape and becomes one of the first Swift service bureausi to migrate its full infrastructure in the Americas to Microsoft Azure.

22 March 2023

News/payments

Swift to develop beta version of experimental CBDC connector

Interbank co-operative Swift is reporting strong support from central and commercial banks after sandbox testing of an experimental method for interlinking central bank digital currencies (CBDC) with existing fiat infrastructures.

09 March 2023

Company announcement/people

Swift's David Watson named CEO of The Clearing House

The Clearing House (TCH) today announced that President & CEO Jim Aramanda will be retiring in early-2023, after 15 years leading the company.

03 January 2023

News/people

Swift re-hires Grainger to lead Americas and UK business

Financial messaging co-operative Swift has re-hired Stephen Grainger from Mastercard to serve as chief executive for Americas and UK region.

03 January 2023

Company announcement/payments

Swift Go sign-ups triple

Swift today reported significant progress in 2022 toward the G20’s goals for enhancing the cross-border experience, rapidly setting a new standard for low-value payments, transforming upfront payment processing to remove friction, bringing new levels of transparency to the securities industry, and delivering breakthrough innovation to integrate CBDCs into the financial ecosystem.

29 November 2022