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SWIFT panel: Innovation in UK is too slow
25 April 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Some 45 percent of an audience at this year’s SWIFT Business Forum in London thought innovation and change within payments in the UK is moving too slowly

SWIFT: Collaboration, innovation and tackling cybercrime
24 April 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Cybercrime, collaboration and innovation featured heavily at this years’ SWIFT Business Forum, as did discussions on how the financial technology industry can prepare itself for a new era

SWIFT welcomes HSBC to gpi service
24 April 2018 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

HSBC has joined SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi) service.

Deutsche Bank: Improved payments working with SWIFT
23 April 2018 Frankfurt
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Deutsche Bank has “significantly improved payments” for its clients by investing in IT and cooperating with SWIFT

SWIFT extends instant payment tracker
23 March 2018 Brussels
Reporter: Becky Butcher

SWIFT has extended its gpi Tracker to cover all payment instructions, allowing gpi banks to track SWIFT payment instructions at all times

Isabel Group takes ownership of blockchain platform
15 March 2018 Brussels
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Isabel Group has been handed the ownership of TrustHive, a blockchain platform to simplify identify management know your customer (KYC) for corporates

CLS to launch end-of-day report for MiFID II compliance
12 March 2018 New York
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The trade information will be collated from CLSs CLSSettlement and CLSSameday in a single report after end-of-day processing has occurred for each service

SWIFT gpi reduces cross-border payment times to minutes
28 February 2018 Brussels
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Some 50 percent of SWIFT gpi payments are credited in less than 30 minutes, and almost 100 percent of payments are completed within 24 hours, according to SWIFT

Volante supports SWIFT’s new standards
26 February 2018 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Volante Technologies has welcomed in SWIFT’s new 2018 standards, which includes a number of significant changes to the firm's messages used in payments, trade finance and securities

EBA Clearing’s RT1 hits 500,000-transaction-mark
23 February 2018 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The RT1 system passed the transaction milestone on 19 February

SWIFT welcomes new payments platform for Australia
14 February 2018 Brussels
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

SWIFT has welcomed the public launch of a New Payments Platform in Australia

RMB is struggling to strengthen position in 2017, according to Swift
05 February 2018 Brussels
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Renminbi usage accounted for just 1.61 percent of domestic and cross-border payments in December 2017, according to Swift’s RMB tracker