Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications: Difference between revisions

From ACT Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
imported>Doug Williamson
(Standardised display of Other links to only show website name and not hyperlink.)
imported>Doug Williamson
(Add link.)
Line 15: Line 15:
* [[Payments and payment systems]]
* [[Payments and payment systems]]
* [[SWIFT gpi]]
* [[SWIFT gpi]]
* [[Track and trace]]





Revision as of 13:17, 23 December 2019

(SWIFT).

A co-operative organisation created and owned by banks that operates a network which facilitates the exchange of payment and other financial messages between financial institutions (including broker-dealers and securities companies) throughout the world.

It is a major international financial telecommunications network that transmits international payment instructions as well as other international financial instruments or messages.

A SWIFT payment message is an instruction to transfer funds; the exchange of funds (settlement) subsequently takes place over a payment system or through correspondent banking relationships.


See also


Other links