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Sibos: Swift to add blockchain-based ledger to infrastructure stack

Bank-to-bank payment network Swift is to develop a shared digital ledger with 30 member banks to test the use of blockchain technology for real-time cross-border payments.

29 September 2025

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ING digital asset lead: Euro stablecoin could revolutionise music industry with tokenised royalties

Hot on the heels of news that nine European banks have partnered to launch a Euro denominated stablecoin, Finextra spoke to Floris Lugt, digital assets lead at ING, about the catalyst for this launch and why they didn’t want to wait for the ECB’s digital euro launch slated for 2029.

25 September 2025

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Swift bids to move the needle for retail consumer payments

Swift is working with 30 banks on a scheme to set new rules for retail cross-border payments on its network.

25 September 2025

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Swift and top banks test use of AI and data sharing to fight financial fraud

Bank-to-bank messaging network Swift is hailing the results of tests that used a combination of AI and cross-border data sharing to double real time fraud detection in trials involving 13 top tier banks and ten million test transactions.

15 September 2025

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The GENIUS Act takes the world by storm: A long read roundup

In July 2025, the US passed the GENIUS Act, making it the first federal regulatory system for stablecoins, and laying down groundwork for stablecoin innovation in the banking and retail sectors.

12 September 2025

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Ant International, Standard Chartered and Swift collaborate on bank-to-wallet payment system

Standard Chartered and Ant International have commenced live production trials for a bank-to-wallet payment service that uses the ISO 20022 financial messaging standards and Swift infrastrucuture.

27 August 2025

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Finastra releases message transformation service for MT to ISO 20022 switch

Finastra has launched a message format translation service for banks switching from Swift MT messages to the new ISO 20022 MX standard.

30 April 2025

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Circle lines up banking partners for stablecoin-based Swift competitor

Stablecoin platform Circle is working with Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and Santander to build a cross-border payment network to rival Swift.

22 April 2025

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Swift rolls out investigation tool to track late payments

Swift has launched a case management service for investigating payment defaults that it claims could save its member banks millions of dollars in operational costs and significantly reduce the time it takes to identify and resolve issues when international payments are delayed.

17 April 2025

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Google Cloud joins with Swift in fight against fraud

Bank-to-bank Payment network Swift is working with Google Cloud to develop multi-jurisdictional anti-fraud technologies that use advanced AI and federated learning

11 December 2024

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Sibos: Financial institutions are “nowhere near” 2027 G20 targets

Alan Marquard, executive vice president, applications at Mastercard commented on their current progress towards 2027 goals as reported by FSB in their second annual assessment in a session on G20 targets at Sibos in Beijing: “we're four years in the journey to 2027, and we're nowhere near there. I find that completely unsurprising. The metrics were set up as quantitative metrics, but set at a global level without clarity on who was responsible for achieving them.”

24 October 2024

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Sibos: Interpol’s I-GRIP tool requested by increasing number of countries

Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea and Spain were among those mentioned as requesting to use Interpol’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments (I-GRIP) system by Sungyong Kang, criminal intelligence officer, Interpol, during a panel at Sibos.

23 October 2024

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