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Sibos 2023: Swift announces Wise partnership

Swift has announced their collaboration with Wise to increase cross-border payment options for financial institutions and their customers.

18 September 2023

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Swift begins beta tests of CBDC connector

Interbank co-operative Swift is working with three central banks and 30 financial institutions on beta tests of an experimental method for interlinking central bank digital currencies with existing fiat infrastructures.

13 September 2023

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The Future of the Global Financial Ecosystem 2024

07 September 2023 1058 downloads

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Swift hails success of blockchain interoperability pilot

Financial messaging network Swift has hailed the results of a project that placed its financial infrastructure as a central point for the transfer of tokenized assets by banks across multiple blockchains.

31 August 2023

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Swift pilots instant payments across currency zones

Swift and several international banks have successfully completed the first pilot to process, in a real environment, instant payments between different currency areas.

14 July 2023

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NY Fed and banks upbeat on digital dollar pilot results

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says that proof-of-concept run with a host of banks has demonstrated the feasibility of a regulated digital asset settlement platform supported by shared ledger technology.

07 July 2023

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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

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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

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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

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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