banking.foundation / Payments / SWIFT
Payment network · Financial messaging · Global
SWIFT
Belgium-based member-owned cooperative providing the standardized secure messaging network used by banks worldwide for payment instructions, including cross-border transfers. Founded in 1973, it carries messages but does not hold funds or settle payments.
- Type
- Financial messaging
- Operator
- Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT SC)
- Region
- Global
- Currency
- Multi
- Launched
- 1973
- Settlement model
- messaging only; no settlement
- Website
- www.swift.com
Approximate reference data from public sources · seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28 · not real-time, not advice. See data & methodology.
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