About
Empowering global transactions with secure, instantaneous financial messaging for a borderless economy
SWIFT is a global, member-owned cooperative and the world’s leading secure financial-messaging provider connecting 11,000+ financial institutions. It delivers end-to-end payments and securities messaging (SWIFT gpi, ISO 20022), interoperability across networks and digital assets, risk & compliance tools, data & analytics, and integration services—backed by its Customer Security Programme to enable faster, transparent and compliant cross-border finance.
Use Cases
Cross-Border Payment Tracking
Enables banks to track international payments in real-time for faster,transparent cross-border transactions.
Compliance Management
Helps financial institutions screen and prevent fraud, AML, and sanctionsviolations efficiently.
Securities Transaction Efficiency
Streamlines securities transactions to reduce errors and processing times formarket infrastructures.
Corporate Payment Integration
Allows corporations to seamlessly integrate payment messaging and complianceinto their financial workflows.
Key Features
Digital-asset standards & interoperability
- Positions itself as a connector between traditional and digital currencies.
- Advocates ISO 20022 as the global messaging standard for consistent blockchain↔ legacy messaging.
- Publicly highlights live trials for digital-asset transactions (Swift START2025).
- Runs innovation programs (Innotribe, Policy Lab, Swift Institute) researchingdigital assets and market practice.
- Signals a strategy to enable cross-rail digital-asset interoperability and aconnected digital-assets future.
Connectivity, infrastructure & compliance for crypto/stablecoins
- Offers connectivity and messaging products (Business Connect, Alliance Cloud,Alliance Lite2, Messaging Hub, SwiftNet Link) to integrate tokenised rails with bank systems.
- Provides standards, reference data and the BIC directory to support routing,addressing and reconciliation across on-chain/off-chain touchpoints.
- Supplies a risk & compliance suite (Transaction Screening, KYC Registry,Compliance Analytics) to address AML/CFT and fraud controls for regulated cryptoflows.
- Operates a Customer Security Programme and professional services to secureSWIFT integration points—important for custody/exchange connectivity.
- Delivers data & analytics products (Observer, Swift Scope, ComplianceAnalytics) for transaction insight, monitoring and regulatory reporting relevant to stablecoin adoption.
Headquarters
🇧🇪 La Hulpe, Wallonia
Website
swift.com
11,000+
connected banking and securities orgs
200+
countries and territories served