Finextra

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced that financial institutions can now leverage Swift capabilities and their existing Swift infrastructure to connect to Nium’s global real-time payments network.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Swift , UBS Asset Management , and Chainlink have successfully completed a pilot for settling tokenized fund subscriptions and redemptions using the Swift network. The pilot used existing Swift infrastructure which enables end-to-end payment orchestration capabilities to settle fund subscriptions and redemptions.

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Fintech News

AUGUST 8, 2024

In the dynamic financial landscape of the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, private banks, asset managers, fund managers, and other capital market participants are increasingly recognising the pivotal role of Swift connectivity. March 2023 marked the start of the migration with a coexistence period with MT messages.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Thunes , the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, today announced its proprietary Direct Global Network now provides banks with access to over 3 billion mobile wallets around the world via their existing Swift connectivity.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Swift today announced that it is rolling out new AI-enhanced fraud detection to help the global payments industry step up its defence as bad actors grow increasingly sophisticated. Available from January 2025, the service is the result of extensive collaboration with banks from around the world and a successful pilot earlier this year.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Swift today published new data which reveals continued progress towards meeting the G20’s goal for the speed of cross-border payments, reporting that 90% of cross-border payments made over the Swift network reach the destination bank within an hour. Swift is committed to continuing to support these efforts.”

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Nium , the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced that financial institutions can now leverage Swift capabilities and their existing Swift infrastructure to connect to Nium’s global real-time payments network. For more information on how to connect to Nium via Swift, visit here.

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Finextra

JUNE 18, 2024

Bank-to-bank payment messaging network Swift is working to facilitate interoperability of Verifcation of Payee schemes across Europe as new research shows that 83% of SMEs across France, Germany, Italy and Spain rank upfront beneficiary checks as important to them in trading across borders.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The collaboration progresses a strategic relationship the two organisations announced in October 2022, and reflects a commitment by Swift, GSS and the GSS Advisory Board, comprising 35 of the world’s leading financial institutions, to reduce inefficiency in the global payments ecosystem.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Swift, the global financial messaging network, will launch live trials of digital asset and currency transactions in 2025. Banks in North America, Europe, and Asia will participate, using Swift ’s platform to conduct transactions involving both digital assets and traditional currencies.

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Fintech News

JUNE 2, 2024

Swift, the global financial messaging cooperative, has announced two AI-driven experiments in collaboration with member banks to combat cross-border payments fraud which could potentially save the industry billions in fraud-related costs. That’s an incredibly exciting prospect, but one that will require strong collaboration.

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Finextra

MAY 21, 2024

Swift is working with 25 leading cash management banks and 20 corporates to develop a white labelled transaction tracking service for ISO 20022 messages across the entire payment chain.

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Finextra

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Banking co-operative Swift is rolling out an AI-powered anomaly detection service to help banks proactively detect and defend against potential financial crime.

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The Paypers

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Swift, UBS Asset Management, and Chainlink have recently completed a pilot programme focused on settling tokenised fund subscriptions over Swift.

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Fintech News

JULY 23, 2024

billion mobile wallets worldwide using their existing Swift connectivity. Payments initiated over Swift will reach TerraPay’s system efficiently and transparently from account to wallet, utilising Swift’s transaction tracking capabilities. Swift connects more than 11,500 financial institutions in over 200 countries.

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Finextra

MARCH 25, 2024

Swift says a new round of sandbox testing has found that its central bank digital currency interlinking technology can enable financial institutions to carry out a wide range of transactions using CBDCs and other forms of digital tokens, easily incorporating them into their business practices.

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Finextra

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Trovata, the pioneering force in corporate bank APIs, announces a new collaboration with Swift, the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, which will extend the benefits of Swift’s tracking capabilities to more businesses through API connectivity.

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Finextra

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Swift today published new data which reveals continued progress towards meeting the G20’s goal for the speed of cross-border payments, reporting that 90% of cross-border payments made over the Swift network reach the destination bank within an hour.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 23, 2024

billion mobile wallets around the world using their existing Swift connectivity, enhancing the cross-border payments experience for businesses and consumers. Swift connects more than 11,500 financial institutions in over 200+ countries. We estimate that we are reaching 600m unbanked consumers.”

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Swift has announced its plans to introduce a new AI-enabled fraud detection to support the global payments sector in mitigating fraudulent activities.

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Finextra

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Swift, UBS Asset Management, and Chainlink have successfully completed a pilot for settling tokenized fund subscriptions and redemptions using the Swift network.

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Finextra

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Global banking co-operative Swift is moving forward with plans to offer member banks access to emerging digital asset classes and currencies over its network, covering a range of use cases in payments, securities, FX, trade and beyond

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Finextra

OCTOBER 9, 2024

AutoRek, a leading automated financial controls platform, is delighted to announce that it has joined the Swift Partner Programme, to improve and simplify the consolidation and reconciliation of financial data.

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Fintech News

MAY 21, 2024

Swift has announced a major upgrade aimed at improving the cross-border payment experience for corporate customers. By standardising payments end-to-end with ISO 20022, Swift enables financial institutions to capture detailed data from the outset. Swift’s efforts align with the G20’s objectives for cross-border payments.

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Finextra

MAY 30, 2024

Banking co-operative Swift is working with global banks on AI pilots to tackle cross-border payments fraud.

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Bank Automation

JUNE 14, 2024

International payments network Swift is deploying technology to make its payments faster, safer and more efficient.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Swift has announced the launch of its first-ever “The Innovation Challenges” that invites participants to create AI-based solutions aimed at improving the efficiency and security of cross-border transactions. They will be granted access to the Swift Challenge sandbox environment.

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Fintech News

MARCH 19, 2024

Swift has been selected by Australian Payments Plus (AP+) to develop a new service aimed at enhancing the safety and security of money transfers in Australia. This is achieved by matching the name provided by the sender with the name linked to the recipient’s account, leveraging Swift’s experience with the New Payments Platform (NPP).

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The Paypers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Swift has partnered with global tech company Wise to allow secure Swift transfers to be completed over Wise with full transparency for financial institutions and their customers.

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Finextra

MARCH 19, 2024

Fiancial messaging co-operative swift has been enlisted by Aastralian Payments Plus (AP+) to build a confirmation of payee service to reduce the risk of misdirected payments and increase defences against payment fraud.

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Finextra

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Surecomp today announced that, together with BNP Paribas and Vanderlande, it has successfully piloted a new corporate-to-bank connectivity standard designed by Swift and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

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Finextra

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Global Screening Services (GSS), a leading RegTech pioneer, today announced an extended partnership with Swift that will enable financial institutions around the world to access its unique end­ to-end sanctions screening platform over the same infrastructure that they already trust to move money between more than 200 countries and four billion accounts (..)

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The Fintech Times

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Swift , the secure financial messaging service provider, is rolling out new AI-enhanced fraud detection to help the global payments industry improve its defence as bad actors become increasingly sophisticated.

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The Paypers

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Central and commercial banks have revealed that they will be able to use the Swift network for trial transactions related to digital currencies and assets.

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Finextra

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Swift has connected domestic payment schemes across Europe to provide full transparency and end-to-end tracking for instant cross-border transfers destined for the EU.

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has initiated discussions with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) , the US Federal Reserve, and the international payment platform SWIFT to explore the use of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for cross-border payments.

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Fintech Finance

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Numeral, the payment technology provider, today announces the support of Swift payments , enabling companies and financial institutions to automate cross-border payments with their partner banks to more than 200 countries, in addition to local European SEPA as well as UK Bacs, FPS, and CHAPS payments, from a single platform. “At

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