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Central Asian banks in SWIFT take-up
21 February 2017 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Financial institutions in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have signed up to the SWIFT Know Your Customer registry

SWIFT tests blockchain for cross-border payments
12 January 2017 La Hulpe
Reporter: Mark Dugdale

SWIFT is exploring whether banks can use distributed ledger technology to improve the reconciliation of their nostro databases in real time to optimise their liquidity globally...

Euroclear secures new CEO
01 November 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Euroclear Group's board of directors has settled on Lieve Mostrey to become the post-trade provider’s new CEO, effective 1 January 2017, following the departure of Tim Howell...

SWIFT wins first client for payments data service
07 October 2016 Stockholm
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Nordea Bank has become the first subscriber to the SWIFT’s new Payments Data Quality service...

SEC agrees next step in T+2 transition
29 September 2016 Washington DC
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has voted in favour of shortening the standard settlement cycle for broker-dealer securities transactions from T+3 to T+2...

SWIFT’s ISO 20022 framework makes progress
27 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Butcher

SWIFT’s framework to support the launch of ISO 20022 has made progress with key financial market infrastructures and market practice groups...

Sibos: Not innovating would be criminal
26 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Butcher

Banks should not see the threat of cybercrime as a reason to shy away from innovation, but rather as an incentive to develop financial technology further, Gottfried Leibbrandt, CEO of SWIFT, told attendees at Sibos 2016 in Geneva...

SWIFT to launch Name Screening service
26 September 2016 Geneva
Reporter: Becky Butcher

SWIFT is to launch Name Screening, a new hosted cloud service that allows for online search engine-style searching of names...

DH Corporation rebrands messaging platform
26 September 2016 New York
Reporter: Becky Butcher

DH Corporation has rebranded its financial messaging platform as Total Messaging...

Russia’s NSD earns first ‘premier' status from SWIFT
21 September 2016 Moscow
Reporter: Drew Nicol

Russia’s central securities depository, the National Settlement Depository, has become the first Eastern European bureau to earn SWIFT’s 'premier' certification status...

SmartStream’s solution accredited by SWIFT
06 September 2016 London
Reporter: Becky Butcher

SmartStream’s Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) Corporate Actions solution has been awarded SWIFT certified application status...

SWIFT selected for intraday liquidity reporting
20 July 2016 Brussels
Reporter: Stephanie Palmer

Deutsche Bank global transaction banking has selected the SWIFT Scope solution for intraday liquidity reporting...