SWIFT is warming up to the concept of being able to transfer tokenized assets from its infrastructure to multiple public and private blockchains. This follows the positive results that the global financial messaging cooperative experienced after conducting a series of experiments that tested the SWIFT infrastructure via the transfer of tokenized assets, according to an… Read More >>
DTCC Shuts Down Its GMEI LEI Utility
The DTCC has confirmed to FTF News that it is shutting down its Global Markets Entity Identifier (GMEI) utility and leaving the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) services business by Aug. 22, and that the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) will assign current LEIs to new, accredited local operating units (LOUs) as part of a… Read More >>
SWIFT Optimistic After Applying Blockchain to Corporate Actions
Six major financial services firms and the SWIFT financial messaging cooperative report that late last month they pilot-tested a blockchain-based solution that streamlines the communication of “significant corporate events to investors” by getting rid of multiple data problems. In an announcement and a report, SWIFT provided details about this latest collaborative experiment with six securities… Read More >>
MSCI Platform Uses Microsoft Azure & Other News
MSCI Offers Integrated Access to Its Wares MSCI, a provider of indexes and other decision support services, has launched an open architecture technology platform, dubbed MSCI ONE, that uses the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to create integrated access to “MSCI’s portfolio of products and solutions,” officials say. MSCI ONE includes “capabilities in quantitative investment… Read More >>
SWIFT & GLEIF Build MIC-to-LEI Bridge & Other News
GLEIF Launches Open Source MIC-to-LEI Mapping SWIFT, the global financial messaging services and systems cooperative, and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) are cooperating to offer financial services firms a new, free way to gather, aggregate, and reconcile counterparty information via a new interoperability across parallel identity platforms, officials say. GLEIF reports that it… Read More >>
SIBOS Explores a Shared Digital Future
The multiple impacts of digital assets and the digitization of traditional assets got plenty of attention at the first in-person version of the Sibos conference since 2019 that got underway earlier this week in Amsterdam. Put on by the SWIFT cooperative, Sibos 2022 was expecting “nearly 10,000 participants,” according to officials. The conference sessions, which… Read More >>
Can SWIFT Make Post-Trade Ops More Transparent?
SWIFT is strongly urging that the industry adopt Unique Transaction Identifiers (UTIs) as a way to bring more transparency to post-trade processing. The new UTI support would come via the SWIFT Securities View capability, which has had a successful pilot test, dubbed the “SWIFT Securities Tracking Pilot,” according to officials of the financial messaging, systems,… Read More >>
Corporate Actions Meets DLT via SWIFT & Other News
American Century, Citi & Vanguard Join SWIFT Project SWIFT, the global financial messaging, systems, and services cooperative, reports that it is “collaborating with seven securities players — including asset managers and custodians American Century Investments, Citi, Vanguard and Northern Trust — to drive efficiencies in communicating significant corporate events.” The corporate actions project is based… Read More >>
SWIFT & Capgemini Explore ‘Disruptive’ CBDCs: Q&A
(Unregulated cryptocurrency markets are crashing and financial market participants are looking toward regulation and particularly the establishment of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Digital currencies controlled by central banks hold the promise of new protections for crypto-, tokenized, and other digital assets, Last month, officials at the SWIFT financial services messaging and systems cooperative and… Read More >>
Ex-SWIFT CEO Campos Joins PPRO & Other News
PPRO Appoints Campos as Independent Chairman Former SWIFT CEO Lázaro Campos was appointed the first independent board chairman for PPRO on April 25, according to the provider of digital payments infrastructure technology. SWIFT provides global financial messaging software, services, and systems. Campos was appointed to the board “to strengthen … governance in the next phase… Read More >>
