Swift news and trends

How Wallets Are Changing Cross-Border Payments

January 27, 2025
PYMNTS eBook, TerraPay
How Payments Investigations Can Cement Customers’ Relationships With Banks
Banking // January 14, 2025

Untold millions of payments representing trillions of dollars wind their way across the globe each and every day. And for the most part, the funds flow seamlessly — where as many as 98% of transactions get where they’re supposed to be. Andy Elliott, vice president...

Citi Says Developer Portal Is Bank’s Innovation Accelerator
Banking // January 13, 2025

As platforms, corporates and financial institutions scale and bring personalized financial products and solutions to their end customers, application programming interfaces (APIs) are proving to be a critical lifeline. They connect third-party applications, data and developers to shorten the time to market for those innovations...

More Than 75% of Banks Not Ready for ISO 20022 Mandates. The Question Is: Why?
Bank Regulation // December 13, 2024

The benefits of standardized data formats and exchanges in financial services are myriad. Banks are moving toward the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard, tied to Swift, which noted that the open standard can be used for all types of financial transactions, including cross-border fund flows....

Google Cloud and Swift Partner on AI Model Training
artificial intelligence // December 10, 2024

Google Cloud and Swift are working together to develop a secure, privacy-preserving solution for financial institutions that use federated learning techniques. Federated learning enables collaborative artificial intelligence (AI) model training without compromising privacy and confidentiality, Google Cloud said in a Tuesday (Dec. 10) blog post. Swift plans...

Interviews & Exclusives
How Wallets Are Changing Cross-Border Payments

January 27, 2025
Digital wallets have altered money movement, especially cross-border payments, TerraPay Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer Ani Sane writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “The Innovation Mindset: How to Achieve It in 2025.”   The evolution of cross-border money movement, especially over the last few years, has been shaped by shifting consumer behaviors and needs, an […]

How Payments Investigations Can Cement Customers’ Relationships With Banks

January 14, 2025
Untold millions of payments representing trillions of dollars wind their way across the globe each and every day. And for the most part, the funds flow seamlessly — where as...

Citi Says Developer Portal Is Bank’s Innovation Accelerator

January 13, 2025
As platforms, corporates and financial institutions scale and bring personalized financial products and solutions to their end customers, application programming interfaces (APIs) are proving to be a critical lifeline. They...

More Than 75% of Banks Not Ready for ISO 20022 Mandates. The Question Is: Why?

December 13, 2024
The benefits of standardized data formats and exchanges in financial services are myriad. Banks are moving toward the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard, tied to Swift, which noted that the...

Quick Reads
Google Cloud and Swift Partner on AI Model Training

December 10, 2024
Google Cloud and Swift are working together to develop a secure, privacy-preserving solution for financial institutions that use federated learning techniques. Federated learning enables collaborative artificial intelligence (AI) model training without compromising privacy and confidentiality, Google Cloud said in a Tuesday (Dec. 10) blog post. Swift plans to roll out a sandbox with synthetic data in the […]

Swift: 1 Million ISO 20022-Formatted Messages Being Sent Daily

December 06, 2024
With one year to go before the deadline to move to ISO 20022 for cross-border payments and reporting plus (CBPR+), more than 1 million ISO 20022-formatted messages are already being sent...

Citi and Bank of Shanghai Team on International Travel Payments

November 13, 2024
Citi and the Bank of Shanghai have teamed to streamline payments for visitors to China. The payments solution announced by the two banks Wednesday (Nov. 13) is designed for the Bank of Shanghai’s TourCard —...

Swift Settles Tokenized Fund Subscriptions and Redemptions on Its Network

November 05, 2024
Swift has completed a successful pilot for tokenized fund subscriptions and redemptions using its network. The project — completed in partnership with UBS Asset Management and Chainlink — would allow...

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