Only SWIFT partners that meet the highest operational standards in availability, security, access control and resiliency are awarded the Best Practice accreditation. Financial institutions and corporations worldwide can rely on the Atos Worldline service that operates at the highest levels of security and resiliency, and offers significant outsourcing business benefits such as a reduction in in-house IT infrastructure costs and capital investment.
A leader and innovator in transaction management, the Atos Worldline SWIFT Service Bureau allows corporations and financial institutions to communicate with their counterparties through one highly secure and standardized global messaging channel. The service covers all the operational SWIFT connectivity needs of corporates and financial institutions including payments, treasury management, FX confirmations, trade finance as well as other messaging flows.

Bert Vanbrabant, Head of Service Bureau eCommunity Services at Atos Worldline, says: " We are particularly proud to be recognized as one of the leading service bureaus in the world. This label underlines our commitment to continued innovation in corporate connectivity and payments, as more corporates move to centralized cloud based services. We are a SWIFT user ourselves and recognize the absolute value of security, reliability and resiliency when outsourcing core financial processes. Our SWIFT service bureau is a cornerstone of our Corporate Payments Suite which integrates our Payment Factory, SWIFT connectivity and SEPA services in one, complete package" .

The SWIFTReady Connectivity Best practice Label is the highest form of certification awarded by SWIFT and helps end-users identify best-in-class providers. To be awarded this label, Atos Worldline demonstrated that they met all the operational requirements by undergoing a rigorous on-site inspection of their SWIFT infrastructure, premises, procedures and documentation by SWIFT auditors.