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SWIFT today announces that a group of banks are to trial instant gpi cross-border payments in Europe using the TARGET Instant Payments Settlement (TIPS) platform.   The European Central Bank (ECB) and SWIFT have launched this initiative to extend the reach of instant cross-border payments deeper into the European market by enabling gpi in the […]

SSICT News · 21 May 2019

SWIFT announces the launch of an ‘in-flight’ payment investigation and resolution service, available in the cloud, in a significant expansion of its network-wide payments validation toolkit. The new capability allows for dynamic query handling between banks on the SWIFT network, enabling them to quickly resolve instances in which required operational, regulatory or compliance information is […]

SSICT News · 2 May 2019

SWIFT announces today that its corporate treasury user community in the Middle and East North Africa grew by more than 30 percent in 2018. The ambition for 2018-2021 is to more than double the number of corporates using SWIFT for treasury operations.   “SWIFT for Corporates” has been supporting corporate treasurers achieve treasury efficiency since […]

SSICT News · 23 Apr 2019

SWIFT today announces aproof-of-concept (PoC) on e-Voting, using distributed ledger technology (DLT)to provide a more efficient and transparent management of the proxy voting process for shareholder meetings. SWIFTis conducting thePoC with leading securities software provider SLIB and the Singapore Exchange (SGX), along with Deutsche Bank, DBS, HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank. The PoC will explore […]

SSICT News · 10 Mar 2019

SWIFT will hold the 25th edition of its SWIFT African Regional Conference (ARC) in Kigali, Rwanda on 20-22 June. Supported by the National Bank of Rwanda, ARC 2018 will bring together up to 500 high level financial representatives from across 50 countries. Under the theme ‘Transforming the future – driving a new digital economy’, delegates […]

Mohamed Mosaed · 10 Jun 2018