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Growth in payments drives Swift annual traffic to exceed 7 billion message mark

SWIFT’s FIN traffic rose to an all-time high of 7.1 billion messages in 2017, fuelled by double-digit growth in global payments.

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Swift recruits CSDs for DLT post trade plans

Banking cooperative Swift has signed an MoU with seven central securities depositaries (CSDs) to explore how distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be used to improve post-trade processes such as corporate actions, proxy voting and trade processing.

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ACI Worldwide certified for Swift gpi

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, announced today that it is the first provider globally to receive SWIFT gpi certification for the Universal Payments (UP) Real-Time Payments solution—the industry’s only solution that allows financial institutions (FIs) to address their Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), SWIFT messaging and real-time payments needs with a single, universal offering.

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Industry automation rates for cross-border fund orders rise to 87%

The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), in cooperation with SWIFT, published a new report about the evolution of automation and standardisation rates of fund orders received by transfer agents (TAs) in the cross-border fund distribution centres of Luxembourg and Ireland during the first half of 2017.

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Ascent connects with Afex FX layer

AFEX, one of the world's largest non-bank providers of global payment and risk management solutions, has partnered with Ascent Software, to enhance its award-winning straight-through processing pre-payment and post-payment software, Trident Connect.

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Swiss banks finish migration to ISO 20022

208 banks have completed the migration to the new ISO 20022 technology standard on schedule.

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Finastra provides connectivity to European instant payments infrastructure

Finastra has successfully completed connectivity testing with SIA, the European leader in payment infrastructure and services, to provide connectivity to the European instant payments infrastructure systems via SIAnet.

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Swift Operations Forum Europe 2017, Amsterdam - Day 1 report

The future of money, how we use data and the dizzying advances in digital technologies dominated the opening discussions at the annual Swift Operations Forum Europe (SOFE) convention in Amsterdam.

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Iberpay gears up for Sepa instant payments with EBA Clearing

Iberpay in Spain is ready to connect Spanish banks to the EBA Clearing system for their cross-border euro real-time payments in time for next week's launch of the pan-European SCT Inst Scheme.

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Swift to support instant payments in Hong Kong

As banks face growing challenges due to evolving payment systems and the global shift to real-time payments, SWIFT is providing the Hong Kong financial community with an enterprise messaging and gateway solution to the Hong Kong Faster Payments System (FPS) that aims to go live in September 2018.

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China Construction Bank deploys swift Alliance Messaging Hub for corporate banking

China Construction Bank (CCB) is China’s first bank to deploy Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) for a corporate banking offering that is tailored towards their multinational clients, innovating global cash management by enabling comprehensive and enriched global cash management services.

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BNP Paribas first to implement ASX ISO 20022 corporate actions service

BNP Paribas Securities Services is the first custodian to implement ASX's near real-time ReferencePoint ISO 20022 Corporate Actions announcement service using SWIFT global messaging.

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ACI adds support for EPC's Sepa instant banking rulebook

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced support for the European Payments Council (EPC) SEPA Instant rulebook standard ISO 20022 within its Universal Payments (UP) solutions portfolio, including UP Immediate Payments and UP Real-Time Payments.

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Swift unveils ISO20022 message translation service

SWIFT is launching a message translation offering that will allow users to define and validate messages from any format to ISO 20022, streamlining the process of migrating to a new standard.

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Swift launches cloud-based correspondent banking suite

SWIFT has launched a Correspondent Banking Suite that provides a single solution for banks seeking cost-effective access to SWIFT while increasing the efficiency and security of their correspondent banking activities.

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Swift positive on blockchain, but big challenges remain

Early results from a blockchain proof-of-concept conducted by Swift with six of the co-operative's member banks indicate that DLT application can deliver the business functionalities and data richness required to support real-time liquidity monitoring and reconciliation.

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SwiftNet Instant to provide access to EBA Clearing’s RT1 system

SWIFT and EBA CLEARING today announced that users of EBA CLEARING’s instant payment system, RT1, will be able to access the platform via SWIFTNet Instant from November 2018.

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Artificial Intelligence Bank-in-Messenger raises $1million from IIDF and private investors

The very first “Bank-in-Messenger”- TalkBank.io has raised $1million in seed investments with a company valuation of $6.1million. IIDF and 7 private investors, including Mark Malinovsky (kuponator.ru) have funded the start up.

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Swift Institute publishes working papers on cyber security

The SWIFT Institute has published three new working papers, each aiming to contribute towards the establishment of better cyber defences for the financial industry.

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Central banks seek better wholesale payments security

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) has set out a plan to improve the security of wholesale payments that involve financial institutions in a bid to prevent a repeat of last year's $81 million Bangladesh Bank hack.