Society For Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
Founded in 1973, it is a global member-owned cooperative that is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
It enables financial entities to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardized and reliable environment. In order to use its messaging services, customers need to connect to the SWIFT environment.
It also sells software and services to financial institutions, mostly for use on its proprietary “SWIFTNet”, and ISO 9362 Business Identifier Codes (BICs), popularly known as “SWIFT ....