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Company announcement/payments

Swift reflects on milestone year

A year after sharing a bold vision to enable instant and frictionless transactions from one account to another anywhere in the world, SWIFT today underlines major progress in realising this vision in 2021.

14 December 2021

Company announcement/payments

Swift launches translation service for cross-border payments

SWIFT today announces the availability of its new In-flow Translation service and confirms that it now offers a full ISO 20022 customer testing environment for cross-border payments.

09 December 2021

News/payments

Deutsche Bank launches Swift Beneficiary Account Verification service

Deutsche Bank has rolled out Swift's new Beneficiary Account Validation (BAV) service, enabling clients to verify payee account details before an international payment instruction is sent.

25 November 2021

Company announcement/Sibos

HSBC becomes first international bank to introduce Swift Payment Pre-validation

HSBC has made two enhancements to minimize the risk of unnecessary payment delays and deliver a smoother, more secure payments experience, including becoming the first bank with a global footprint to introduce SWIFT Payment Pre-validation.

14 October 2021

Company announcement/Sibos

One hundred banks sign up to Swift Go

SWIFT today announces that 100 banks around the world have signed up for SWIFT Go since it went live in July, underscoring strong demand for the service that enables small businesses and consumers to send fast, predictable, highly secure and competitively priced low-value cross-border payments from their bank accounts.

14 October 2021

News/Sibos

Sibos 2021: Swift, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and C3.AI to collaborate on AI platform

On day two of Sibos 2021, representatives from Swift, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and C3.AI took to the virtual stage to explore how collaboration and establishing a community between banks can support the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) at scale.

12 October 2021

Company announcement/Sibos

Bottomline launches payments tracker using Swift APIs

Bottomline (NASDAQ:EPAY), a leading provider of financial technology that makes business payments simple, smart and secure, today announced the latest API-based payments tracking service for banks worldwide, integrating SWIFT gpi data.

12 October 2021

News/Sibos

EBA Clearing, Swift and TCH test instant cross-border payments

Banks from both sides of the Atlantic have successfully exchanged real-time cross-border payment messages as part of a proof-of-concept trial conducted with Swift, EBA Clearing and The Clearing House.

11 October 2021

News/payments

UniCredit and JP Morgan employ Swift Go for payments between Europe and US

Utilising the banking cooperative’s low value remittance solution, UniCredit and JP Morgan have partnered to allow small businesses and consumers send fast and secure near real-time cross border payments at a competitive price with Swift Go.

08 October 2021

News/Sibos

Sibos 2021: Finextra's bespoke channel to deliver tailored conference highlights

Since 2003, Finextra Research has partnered with Swift to bring you a special-purpose financial services news channel, designed to keep Sibos attendees and the wider global banking community up-to-speed with news and views direct from the conference.

01 October 2021

Company announcement/payments

DBS introduces real-time digital cross-border incoming payment tracking

DBS has launched real-time online tracking for cross-border collections for businesses in India in partnership with SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi).

13 September 2021

Company announcement/security

Swift to run proof-of-concept trials of trade finance fraud tech from MonetaGo

MonetaGo, a financial technology solutions provider, today announced a new platform to combat financing fraud in trade finance on a global level.

13 September 2021