Swift

902 results about this entity

Period: 22 Jul 2008 - 18 Feb 2025

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Swift gpi hits 50% tipping point on two-year anniversary

Swift's global payments innovation (gpi) initiative has reached a critical tipping point, accounting for over 50% of messaging traffic across the interbank network.

Volante switches on support for latest Swift standards

Volante Technologies Inc., the global provider of software to accelerate digital transformation and modernization, today announced support for the latest SWIFT Standards Release 2019.

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Swift to open KYC Registry to corporates

Interbank messaging network Swift is to open its KYC Registry to corporates, providing a central hub for document exchange with multiple banking partners and eliminating duplication and ineffeciency.

Swift to open gpi gateway to R3 blockchain

Interbank co-operative Swift is to conduct a proof-of-concept trial to link its gpi network to the Corda platform of enterprise blockchain consortium R3.

Bellin becomes early adopter of Swift gpi for Corporates

BELLIN, a global leader in providing web-based treasury software and services for multinational corporations, is once again working directly with SWIFT to develop a pioneering new service.

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Swift reports double-digit growth in message volumes

SWIFT’s figures show an average of 31.31 million messages a day in 2018 as its annual traffic rose to an all-time high of over 7.8 billion.

Swift introduces Pay Later API for instant loan financing

Interbank payment network Swift is pushing an API standard which will enable banks to provide instant loan approvals for customers at the point-of-sale.

Innovating from the outside in

Craig Young, Chief Information Officer, SWIFT, speaks at SOFE 2018 about the importance of innovation to SWIFTS growth and relevance for the future and which technology trends in the market are most promising.

Easing payment friction with payment pre-validation

Marc Delbaere, Head of Corporates and Trade, SWIFT, speaks about how SWIFT is driving transformation in cross border payments, how payments pre-validation would help ease payments friction for banks and what barriers remain around the adoption of pre-validation.

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Swift gpi crosses 50% threshold

During 2018, SWIFT’s gpi payments service continued to radically transform correspondent banking. With the support of hundreds of financial institutions, including the world’s 60 biggest banks, it is now being used to send hundreds of billions in payments every day – more than half (55%) of SWIFT’s cross-border traffic.

European payments market infrastructure renewal

Saskia Devolder, Head of Western and Central Europe, SWIFT, speaks at SOFE 2018 in Amsterdam about the transformation underway in European Payments as a result of the Eurosystem and others setting a clear timetable for market infrastructure renewal, whats driving this, and how the industry is responding.

Swift CEO Leibbrandt quits

Swift CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt is to step down after seven years at the helm of the bank-backed international payments network.