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Swift's KYC Registry Made Available for Fund Distributors, Custodians
Swift expands due diligence service beyond correspondent banking.
Swift Expands KYC Registry
Correspondent bank service will now also address funds distribution, custody services
Russia Nominates Astanin To Swift Board
NSD chairman would be first Russian to serve on messaging service provider's leadership team
Omgeo Automates SSI Data Management for Custodians & Brokers
State Street one of five custodians due to go live with the new capabilities.
Devonshire Manager Supports Blockchain Technology in Settlement Process
David Jegen, managing director at Devonshire Investments, said he's interested in companies that are working towards using blockchain in the settlement process.
Former Markit, TRACE Exec Lefferts Makes Swift Move
Lefferts was also responsible for the TRACE fixed income reporting feed at FINRA.
SwiftRef Offers API Access
New capability automates single, one-time data validations
IRD's Editor on February Issue Features
Data organization, connection and expansion issue feature in February issue
GMEI's LEIs Reach Half of Global Total
DTCC-Swift joint venture has issued 165,000 identifiers
What Do You Know and When Do You Know It?
Recent IRD features focus on the challenges of collecting and accessing data in timely fashion
Striving To Streamline
Total automation of corporate actions processing may be impossible, but digitization could go a long way
Know Your KYC Goals
Swift's registry manager talks about the potential for correspondent knowledge
Swift Names Young CTO
Young joins Swift after 20 years at Verizon
AFTAs 2014: Best Infrastructure Initiative—Northern Trust
One of the more interesting trends to develop over the last few years is the financial services industry’s willingness to use cloud-based solutions to drive down costs while improving efficiencies. The next stage of that evolution has been the…
SWIFT Officially Launches KYC Registry
Move comes after pilot with handful of banks
Swift’s KYC Registry Goes Live
Central Utility Lets Firms Retain Data Ownership
KYC: Know Your Choices
Know-your-customer (KYC) requirements, hardly a bank’s most value-added function, have become a popular topic among operations, compliance, and reference data professionals, with a growing consensus that KYC checks can be done cheaper and more…
Sibos: A Good Place To Check ISO 20022 Progress
Industry professionals plan to take stock of progress on the ISO 20022 messaging standard used for corporate actions, in a key session at the Sibos conference in Boston on September 29
RBS Adopts Single-Platform Transaction Messaging for Corporates
Royal Bank of Scotland will now support Swift's Corporate Access (SCA) members using the MT798 messaging standard for corporate-to-bank trade transactions.
Hong Kong RTGS Taps Swift for Market Infrastructure Resiliency Services
Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited (HKICL), the clearing and settlement house for the Hong Kong financial market, has agreed to adopt the Market Infrastructure Resiliency Service (MIRS) run by Swift to reduce operational risks and improve the…
Canadian LOU Chooses GMEI Utility
CDS Clearing and Depository Services will use DTCC and Swift's Global Markets Entity Identifier utility for legal entity identifier registration
DTCC, Swift Top Ranking of LEI Infrastructures
The first quarterly ranking from Tabb Group puts the US legal entity identifier providers at 97% comprehensiveness for more than 140,000 records
CFTC Extends DTCC-Swift's LEI Designation
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has extended the designation of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation-Swift (DTCC-Swift) as the provider of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs).
Swift Adds Two to Compliance Services Arm
SWIFT has appointed Christopher Johnson and Fedra Ware as Practice Leads, Compliance Services, in the Americas.