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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Why Big Corporates Are Skipping SWIFT
Why Big Corporates Are Skipping SWIFT
October 16, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Forty percent of Fortune 500 companies are already connected to SWIFT, the global financial-messaging network. That’s according to Gottfried Liebbrandt, CEO of Brussels-based SWIFT, at...

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SWIFT Says It “Has No Authority” To Unplug Russia Or Israel
SWIFT Says It “Has No Authority” To Unplug Russia Or Israel
October 08, 2014  |  B2B Payments

Global financial-messaging network SWIFT will not unplug either Russia or Israel from the system unless the European Union officially adopts appropriate sanctions, the organization said...

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Europe and Africa Are Ahead On ISO 20022 B2B Payments; U.S. And Canada Lag
Europe and Africa Are Ahead On ISO 20022 B2B Payments; U.S. And Canada Lag
September 26, 2014  |  B2B Payments

If adopting the ISO 20022 universal financial messaging system for B2B payments is a chicken-and-egg problem, SEPA seems to have cracked it in Europe. Messaging...

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Swift Moves to Ban Russia
Swift Moves to Ban Russia
September 03, 2014  |  News

British prime minister David Cameron is urging EU nations to cut off Russian banks from the SWIFT financial messaging network, in order to put pressure...

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