SWIFT

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, legally S.W.I.F.T. SCRL, provides a network that enables financial institutions worldwide to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardized and reliable environment.

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Bank of England: CHAPS Payment System Service Restored After Outage
Bank of England: CHAPS Payment System Service Restored After Outage
July 18, 2024  |  Payment Methods

The Bank of England said Thursday (July 18) that a global payments issue that was affecting CHAPS, the United Kingdom’s high-value payment system, is now resolved. “We...

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Swift Turns to AI to Battle Cross-Border Payment Fraud
Swift Turns to AI to Battle Cross-Border Payment Fraud
May 30, 2024  |  Artificial Intelligence

Swift is partnering with a group of banking giants to combat cross-border payment fraud. The global messaging service announced in a news release Thursday (May...

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Swift Unveils New Cross-Border Payment Tracking Solution
Swift Unveils New Cross-Border Payment Tracking Solution
May 21, 2024  |  B2B Payments

Swift has unveiled new ways for financial institutions to streamline cross-border payments for corporate customers. The financial messaging service said it is doing this “by extending...

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Swift and Veritran Team on Improved Cross-Border Payments
Swift and Veritran Team on Improved Cross-Border Payments
April 29, 2024  |  Partnerships

Banking platform Veritran has launched a partnership with financial messaging service Swift. The collaboration, announced Monday (April 29), is designed to help financial institutions to offer customers enhanced and...

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Commerzbank to Integrate PPI Platform, ISO 20022 for X-Border Payments
Commerzbank to Integrate PPI Platform, ISO 20022 for X-Border Payments
April 04, 2024  |  Banking

Commerzbank is updating its payments platform in Germany to execute cross-border payments. The bank will use the Swift network to process cross-border payments and the...

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Swift Finds Connector Can Enable Wide Range of CBDC Transactions
Swift Finds Connector Can Enable Wide Range of CBDC Transactions
March 25, 2024  |  CBDC

Swift has released the results of the second phase of industry-wide sandbox testing on its central bank digital currency (CBDC) interlinking solution. The findings suggest...

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Australia Payments Plus Picks Swift to Battle Payments Fraud
Australia Payments Plus Picks Swift to Battle Payments Fraud
March 19, 2024  |  Security & Fraud

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) has chosen Swift to assist in improving the country’s payment capabilities. Swift will build a service to reduce misdirect payments and boost...

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ISO 20022 Migration Faces Fragmentation, Deadline Pressures as Rollout Accelerates
ISO 20022 Migration Faces Fragmentation, Deadline Pressures as Rollout Accelerates
March 19, 2024  |  B2B Payments

ISO 20022 migration is increasingly top of mind for the world’s payments players. That’s because the open global standard for financial messaging is fast approaching...

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Numeral Expands Payment Infrastructure to Include Support for Swift
Numeral Expands Payment Infrastructure to Include Support for Swift
February 22, 2024  |  Cross-border Payments

Payment technology provider Numeral has launched support for Swift payments. This move enables Numeral’s customers to benefit from both Swift’s global reach and local payment schemes’ speed, lower cost...

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