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Swift appoints new head of Mena and TurkeySwift, a member-owned cooperative and global provider of secure financial messaging services, has appointed Onur Ozan as head of Middle East, North Africa & Turkey region. Ozan will lead the nine-strong team out of the S More… |
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SWIFT annual message traffic tops 7bn markSWIFT’s FIN (financial message) traffic rose to an all-time high of 7.1 billion messages in 2017, fuelled by double-digit growth in global payments. While SWIFT’s FIN traffic grew by 9 per cent over the year, FIN More… |
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400 Arab experts for SWIFT summitMore than 400 delegates and exhibitors from the Arab region are taking part in Sibos 2017, an international financial summit organised by SWIFT, a global provider of secure financial messaging services. The event is being held in More… |
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UAE banks to get SWIFTSmart eLearning platformSwift has announced that its SWIFTSmart eLearning platform is growing at a rapid rate and now offers training modules to all banks in the UAE. Employees of over 170 banks, financial institutions and corporate customers in the UAE More… |
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Global corporates urge banks to use Swift gpiSix leading Swiss corporates with international operations - including ABB, Nestle, Roche, SBB, Swiss Re and Wurth – have issued an open letter, stating their support for the Swift global payments innovation (gpi) and encouraging banks wor More… |
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Swift opens up KYC Registry to all finance institutionsSwift today announced that it has opened membership in its KYC Registry to all supervised financial institutions globally. Since the launch of The KYC Registry in December 2014, membership has been limited to Swift-connected super More… |
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Swift to fund global FinTech companiesBelgium-based Swift, a global provider of secure financial messaging services, said it will provide up to €200,000 ($227,155) in funding to FinTech companies from around the world to develop new overlay services that leverage its global pay More… |
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SWIFT unveils cross-border payments trackerSWIFT has unveiled its new cross-border payments tracker that enables international payments to be traced in real-time. The Tracker is the cornerstone of SWIFT gpi – the cooperative’s new payments innovation service &n More… |
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SWIFT developing proof of concept for DLTSWIFT is developing a proof of concept (PoC) application that will test whether distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be used by banks to improve the reconciliation of their nostro accounts in real time. Australia and New Zealan More… |
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SWIFT forum tackles Egypt’s economic reformsNearly 200 experts from the Egyptian banking and financial sector gathered recently in Cairo, Egypt for the SWIFT Business Forum Egypt to discuss the pressing challenges of cyber threats, de-risking and compliance. Tarek Fayed, su More… |
