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Company information
SWIFT is the industry-owned co-operative supplying secure, standardised messaging services and interface software to nearly 8,000 financial institutions in 206 countries and territories. SWIFT members include banks, broker-dealers and investment managers. The broader SWIFT community also encompasses corporates as well as market infrastructures in payments, securities, treasury and trade. Over the past ten years, SWIFT message prices have been reduced over 80%, and system availability approaches 5x9 reliability — 99.999% of uptime.
Vision and mission
Our vision
To be the global financial community’s foremost messaging infrastructure that is lowest risk and highest resilience;
To achieve this we will harness what has been called ‘one of the dominant franchises of our network age’ and tap the enormous potential of that franchise for the benefit of our worldwide community of members.
Our mission
SWIFT is a worldwide community of financial institutions whose purpose is to be the leader in communications solutions enabling interoperability between its members, their market infrastructures and their end-user communities.
SWIFT will:
* Work in partnership with its members to provide low-cost, competitive financial processing and communications services of the highest security and reliability
* Contribute significantly to the commercial success of its members through greater automation of the end-to-end financial transaction process, based on its leading expertise in message processing and financial standards setting
* Capitalise on its position as an international open forum for the world’s financial institutions to address industry-level threats, issues and opportunities
* Employ and recruit the best people, invest in the most beneficial resources, and become a leading global organisation respected for its professionalism, effectiveness, vision and management.
The SWIFT prize "linking people through technology"
The SWIFT Fund awards an annual prize of EUR 50,000 to an idea or project that leverages new communication and information technologies to create, improve or strengthen links between people. For more details see King Baudouin Foundation.
King Baudouin Foundation
Istorija Swift-a
http://www.swift.com/index.cfm?item_id=1243