What are SWIFT Payments?

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is a member-owned cooperative society under Belgian law and is owned and controlled by its shareholders. More than 10800 Financial Institutions in over 200+ countries use SWIFT Network to transfer their financial messages with their correspondents (cross- border or domestic) in a secure, reliable and faster manner. Payments’ constitute a significant share of the overall traffic over SWIFT network. SWIFT, however is not into clearing and settlement but more acts as a secure carrier in both Store and Forward and Real-time modes.

While, traditionally, interbank payment messages have hugely been on proprietary SWIFT “MT” standards, many of the new market infrastructure financial messaging is going for ISO 20022. As a provider of secure messaging platform and also being the Registration Authority for these standards, SWIFT’s role in facilitating automated processing and real-time payments is pivotal. SWIFT, besides being a secure message carrier of financial institutions & Corporates, also extends services towards enabling Cash Reporting, Intra-day Liquidity reporting and handling Exceptions & Investigations on the business side & Sanctions’ Screening and other Compliance services from the regulatory and risk management stand points. SWIFT Remit solution is the first in the person-to-person money remittance solution from SWIFT. The developments and adoption of these solutions & services in the SAARC region give us the idea of potential scale and scope for further extension.

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