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Argentina’s CSD joins Swift

SWIFT announced today that Argentina’s CSD, Caja de Valores, is now fully operational directly on its network. In an effort to increase efficiency and resilience in Argentina’s capital markets, the CSD is executing all its international transactions via SWIFT.

13 September 2016

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BNY Mellon to roll out new payment capabilities

The transformation of BNY Mellon's payment infrastructure that began two years ago with upgrades to the company's global payment capabilities will continue this fall with the launch of several important new processing and reporting enhancements.

07 September 2016

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Swift's Sanctions Screening service pulls in 500th customer

SWIFT announces another important milestone for its hosted compliance services – the 500th customer for the SWIFT Sanctions Screening service.

07 September 2016

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Swift majors on interface security

SWIFT announces the launch of a campaign to increase awareness for existing security features in its interface products.

16 August 2016

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ICBC signs for Swift’s Watch portfolio

Swift today announces that Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has implemented its entire SWIFT Watch portfolio of solutions to analyse the bank’s traffic across its network.

11 August 2016

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Indian banks join Swift payments initiative

SWIFT announces today that ICICI Bank and AXIS Bank are the first Indian banks to sign up for its global payments innovation initiative.

26 July 2016

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Swift daily messaging volumes exceed 30 million mark

The end of June peak in Payments traffic, combined with the ongoing Brexit-related surge in Securities and Treasury traffic, triggered two successive FIN traffic peak days on Tuesday 28th and Thursday 30th June 2016.

06 July 2016

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Three Latin American startups share $30k Innotribe challenge prize

The Innotribe Startup Challenge attendees selected the three most promising FinTech companies during its first annual showcase for Latin America.

30 June 2016

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Swift adds news service to KYC Registry

SWIFT announces the launch of KYC Adverse Media, a news service integrated into its KYC Registry, a centralised repository that maintains a standardised set of information about financial institutions required for KYC compliance.

29 June 2016

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Innotribe selects nine to compete in Latin American startup challenge

Working in close collaboration with Innotribe, over 70 judges from across the financial, technology, and investment communities evaluated close to 50 applications submitted for the first edition of the Startup Challenge in Latin America.

27 June 2016

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Swift AGM approves funding for security programme

The SWIFT Board met on 9th June at SWIFT headquarters, on the occasion of the cooperative’s Annual General Meeting.

27 June 2016

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NY Fed steps up monitoring of Swift transactions

It is important to note that the recent incident with the Bangladesh Bank was not caused by a breach or compromise of the New York Fed’s systems.

24 June 2016

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