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Silent Revolution: When SWIFT Embraced The Blockchain

On September 29, 2025, SWIFT CEO Javier Perez-Tasso announced at Sibos that SWIFT would integrate blockchain into its core infrastructure.
SWIFT made this move due to rising blockchain adoption, regulatory clarity, and pressure from emerging digital payment systems threatening its dominance.
More than 30 global financial institutions, including JPMorgan and HSBC, are collaborating with SWIFT and Consensys to build a blockchain ledger for real-time, 24/7 cross-border payments.
SWIFT said the ledger will act as a secure, real-time log that records, sequences, and validates transactions, enforcing rules via smart contracts to move regulated tokenized value.
This blockchain initiative marks a new chapter for SWIFT, aiming to modernize global finance and prevent irrelevance amid evolving digital asset ecosystems.

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Forbes

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Silent Revolution: When SWIFT Embraced The Blockchain

SWIFT announced its aim to add a blockchain-based ledger to its technology infrastructure on 29th September 2025.

3 days ago·United States

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Bloomberg

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Swift To Build a Blockchain-Based Ledger For Financial Firms

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Coin Desk

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SWIFT to Develop Blockchain-Based Ledger for 24/7 Cross-Border Payments

SWIFT is working with a group of over 30 financial institutions to build a ledger based on a prototype by Ethereum developers Consensys.

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Times of India

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SWIFT and top global banks working on blockchain-based overhaul

SWIFT and over 30 global banks are rapidly developing a blockchain-based shared digital ledger to enable instantaneous, 24/7 cross-border payments. This initiative aims to modernize international transactions, making them cheaper and interoperable with emerging digital currencies like stablecoins and CBDCs, leveraging SWIFT's extensive global network.

4 days ago·India

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CoinGeek

SWIFT blockchain ledger for 24/7 global payments underway

SWIFT is teaming up with over 30 banks to build a blockchain ledger, aiming for faster, safer 24/7 payments with transparency and trust built in. The post SWIFT blockchain ledger for 24/7 global payments underway appeared first on CoinGeek.

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ts2.tech

SWIFT’s Blockchain Breakthrough: Banks Race to Supercharge Global Payments!

Key Facts: – SWIFT has launched a major effort with 30+ global banks and Consensys (Ethereum software firm) to build a blockchain-based shared ledger for cross-border payments reuters.com swift.com. Why SWIFT Is Overhauling Payments For decades, SWIFT (the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) has run the messaging “plumbing” behind bank transfers – a system connecting >11,000 institutions in 200+ countries, moving trillio…

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