Venue
Hotel Okura Amsterdam, 333 Ferdinand Bolstraat, 1072 LH Amsterdam, Netherlands
Agenda
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Alliance Interfaces 2019 - 2020 Roadmap
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
HEIAN II
Work session
Looking for your yearly Alliance Access/Entry/Gateway Roadmap update? Do you want to know everything that is coming next year for your Alliance interfaces? This is where you will find it.
Our product managers will walk you through the updates for 2019-2020, they will cover the main new features in release 7.3, explain what we are doing to help you do security monitoring, and share some early information on release 7.4 plans for 2020.
If you want to be prepared for 2019-2020, this is the session you cannot afford to miss.
Our product managers will walk you through the updates for 2019-2020, they will cover the main new features in release 7.3, explain what we are doing to help you do security monitoring, and share some early information on release 7.4 plans for 2020.
If you want to be prepared for 2019-2020, this is the session you cannot afford to miss.
Optimise your back-office functions with SWIFTRef, the must-have global reference data utility
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
MEERMAN 1+2
Work session
Faulty reference data and lack of system automation are some of the main operational risks associated with financial transactions, resulting in higher costs, reduced STP levels, and reputational damage.
Also, thorough reference data is needed to meet the growing number of regulatory mandates and reporting needs. With all the reference data you need to process your transactions, SWIFTRef helps you complete your due diligence processes and parts of your regulatory compliance obligations in an automated, easy-to-integrate manner.
During this session you will hear from SWIFTRef experts about how the revised BIC standard is impacting the SWIFTRef products. You will also learn about our new files, including Standing Settlement Instructions (SSI), National ID history and structure, account number structure and of course, SWIFT gpi. You will also have an opportunity to find out more about our Entity Plus product, hear what’s coming up in the revamp of our Bankers World Online tool, and hear about our plans for the future, including the use of APIs.
Also, thorough reference data is needed to meet the growing number of regulatory mandates and reporting needs. With all the reference data you need to process your transactions, SWIFTRef helps you complete your due diligence processes and parts of your regulatory compliance obligations in an automated, easy-to-integrate manner.
During this session you will hear from SWIFTRef experts about how the revised BIC standard is impacting the SWIFTRef products. You will also learn about our new files, including Standing Settlement Instructions (SSI), National ID history and structure, account number structure and of course, SWIFT gpi. You will also have an opportunity to find out more about our Entity Plus product, hear what’s coming up in the revamp of our Bankers World Online tool, and hear about our plans for the future, including the use of APIs.
Security Controls 2019
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
BALLROOM IV
Work session
The Customer Security Programme (CSP) is here to stay, and, as the threat landscape evolves, so must the CSP. As a result, at the same time that work is underway across the SWIFT community to certify compliance with the 16 existing mandatory controls, we have been working on the next version of the controls framework - v2019.
In this session, we will share what’s coming up in the 2019 version of the security controls and answer your questions.
If you play a role in your institution’s compliance with the CSP, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss.
In this session, we will share what’s coming up in the 2019 version of the security controls and answer your questions.
If you play a role in your institution’s compliance with the CSP, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss.
Evolution of SWIFT’s cloud platform
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
HEIAN I
Work session
SWIFT is building a new cloud platform to enhance its offering for customers looking for a fully managed interface and connectivity to SWIFT.
Don’t miss this session, which will include a sneak preview of the new graphical interface with fully re-designed screens for a best-in-class user experience.
Don’t miss this session, which will include a sneak preview of the new graphical interface with fully re-designed screens for a best-in-class user experience.
SWIFT gpi – the new norm in cross-border payments
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
BALLROOM V
Work session
The SWIFT community is to universally adopt the SWIFT gpi service, in a move that will see all 10,000 banks on SWIFT using gpi for cross border payments by the end of 2020. Launched in early 2017, gpi already accounts for 25% of SWIFT cross-border payment traffic.
More than 100 billion USD in SWIFT gpi messages is sent every day, enabling payments to be credited to end beneficiaries within minutes – many within seconds. Hundreds of thousands of payments are being sent daily across 450 country corridors, in more than 100 currencies. In major corridors, such as USA-China, gpi already accounts for nearly 50% of payment traffic.
It is this early success and fast adoption rate that led to the decision to move to universal gpi adoption.
Join this session to understand the business drivers behind SWIFT gpi and what this means for your institution.
More than 100 billion USD in SWIFT gpi messages is sent every day, enabling payments to be credited to end beneficiaries within minutes – many within seconds. Hundreds of thousands of payments are being sent daily across 450 country corridors, in more than 100 currencies. In major corridors, such as USA-China, gpi already accounts for nearly 50% of payment traffic.
It is this early success and fast adoption rate that led to the decision to move to universal gpi adoption.
Join this session to understand the business drivers behind SWIFT gpi and what this means for your institution.
Understanding your counterparty’s CSP attestation level
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
OTTER
Work session
By now, all SWIFT customers should be checking what the attestation level of their counterparties is, and integrating this compliance data into their risk management processes.
How do customers use the KYC-SA tool, and how should customers with many counterparties use the ‘bulk-load’ feature?
How do customers use the KYC-SA tool, and how should customers with many counterparties use the ‘bulk-load’ feature?
How to best benefit from your data using AI and machine learning
7:15 AM - 7:45 AM
EST
SWIFTHub Theatre
In this data-driven world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is redefining thefinancial services industry. An increasing number of financial intuitions are adopting a machine learning-based approach and shifting towards using technologically-enabled intelligence. In this session, we will explore how to use AI and machine learning in order to get the most out of your data.
ISO 20022 for beginners – what you really need to know
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
EST
ESPERANCE
Work session
ISO 20022 has been adopted by market infrastructures in more than 70 countries, making it a global success. The dominant role of ISO 20022 in payment systems and other market infrastructures, combined with its inherent functional and technical advantages, have triggered a demand to use the same standard cross-border, enabling interoperability.
ISO 20022 is also designed to adapt to new technologies, and can be applied to APIs to ensure end-to-end consistency of business processes. Come to this session if your institution is facing an ISO 20022 implementation and you want to learn everything there is to know about its fundamental concepts, scope, methodology, and everything else you are going to need on your ISO 20022 journey.
ISO 20022 is also designed to adapt to new technologies, and can be applied to APIs to ensure end-to-end consistency of business processes. Come to this session if your institution is facing an ISO 20022 implementation and you want to learn everything there is to know about its fundamental concepts, scope, methodology, and everything else you are going to need on your ISO 20022 journey.
Alliance Messaging Hub – the future in financial messaging (RESTRICTED ACCESS)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
EST
BALLROOM IV
Work session
RESTRICTED ACCESS
Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) is a future-proof financial messaging platform for financial institutions and market infrastructures.
Scalable and customisable, AMH supports your business activities, with message processing allowing you to connect to multiple networks around the world. With AMH, all of your financial flows can be orchestrated in a single hub, regardless of whether they require FIN, FileAct, ISO 20022, SEPA, local formats, instant payments, files, messages, or API calls.
Needs that are common across flows, such as sanctions screening, routing rules, reference data, message display, auditing, workflow and integration capabilities, can all be managed from one hub. You can simplify your messaging architecture and reduce complexity with a messaging hub that consistently provides top notch performance, security and availability, running 24/7 without fail. AMH can also greatly reduce your costs, and will increase your efficiency and agility in coping with change.
Come and find out how AMH can take your financial messaging operations to the next level.
Scalable and customisable, AMH supports your business activities, with message processing allowing you to connect to multiple networks around the world. With AMH, all of your financial flows can be orchestrated in a single hub, regardless of whether they require FIN, FileAct, ISO 20022, SEPA, local formats, instant payments, files, messages, or API calls.
Needs that are common across flows, such as sanctions screening, routing rules, reference data, message display, auditing, workflow and integration capabilities, can all be managed from one hub. You can simplify your messaging architecture and reduce complexity with a messaging hub that consistently provides top notch performance, security and availability, running 24/7 without fail. AMH can also greatly reduce your costs, and will increase your efficiency and agility in coping with change.
Come and find out how AMH can take your financial messaging operations to the next level.
SWIFT’s API strategy
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
EST
HEIAN I
Work session
In this session we will run you through SWIFT’s API strategy, from the standardisation of financial APIs to the exploration of various use cases that we are looking at.
We will take a closer look at SWIFT’s API roadmap and share information on the various activities that we are involved in.
We will take a closer look at SWIFT’s API roadmap and share information on the various activities that we are involved in.
Financial Crime Compliance in the real-time world
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
EST
HEIAN II
Work session
As the global trend towards real-time payment systems continues to accelerate, one of the most pressing issues for banks is how to increase speed whilst meeting regulatory and compliance obligations. Learn about the important role that financial crime compliance will play in the move to real-time payments and how that can support and enable business growth.
Operational challenges? Find out how we can help you manage them better
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
EST
OTTER
Work session
In today’s challenging environment, the financial community has a number of key priorities to consider as it seeks to stay relevant through market-centric innovation while ensuring secure and compliant processes and operations. For our customers, time to market is critical as is guaranteeing worry-free operations.
In 2019, SWIFT will bring to market a refreshed portfolio of Professional Services to help customers maintain their SWIFT environment.
You may prefer to manage the infrastructure yourself and benefit from preventive & proactive activities by our global support centres. Or perhaps you require hands-on help for specific tasks related to release and change management of your Alliance Lite2, Alliance Access (SAA) or Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) environment. Or you are looking for complete peace of mind with our managed service offering. No matter what your operational challenges and needs are, you will be able to find the right value proposition within our renewed support and care services portfolio.
Join this session to learn more about how our professional services continue to evolve to better serve you as of 2019.
In 2019, SWIFT will bring to market a refreshed portfolio of Professional Services to help customers maintain their SWIFT environment.
You may prefer to manage the infrastructure yourself and benefit from preventive & proactive activities by our global support centres. Or perhaps you require hands-on help for specific tasks related to release and change management of your Alliance Lite2, Alliance Access (SAA) or Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) environment. Or you are looking for complete peace of mind with our managed service offering. No matter what your operational challenges and needs are, you will be able to find the right value proposition within our renewed support and care services portfolio.
Join this session to learn more about how our professional services continue to evolve to better serve you as of 2019.
DLT e-Voting solution – A proof of concept with SWIFT and Slib
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
EST
BALROOM V
Work session
SWIFT and Slib have joined forces to demonstrate a new way of implementing innovative solutions in a complex environment with problematics of security, compliance and scalability.
In this session we will show you how to use your SWIFT infrastructure, interfaces and network to access to an innovative e-Voting solution developed by Slib on blockchain technology hosted on the SWIFT Sandbox.
We will also explain how you can use a hybrid solution based on messaging and DLT to foster interoperability and avoid market fragmentation with ISO 20022 as the foundation, combined with exposed APIs to access the ledger, clearly allowing each participant to adopt the new technology at its own pace.
This e-Voting solution will allow you to reduce friction and manual intervention in the voting process and also ensure that all information is transparent to stakeholders when required, with the right security, governance and risk procedures in place.
In this session we will show you how to use your SWIFT infrastructure, interfaces and network to access to an innovative e-Voting solution developed by Slib on blockchain technology hosted on the SWIFT Sandbox.
We will also explain how you can use a hybrid solution based on messaging and DLT to foster interoperability and avoid market fragmentation with ISO 20022 as the foundation, combined with exposed APIs to access the ledger, clearly allowing each participant to adopt the new technology at its own pace.
This e-Voting solution will allow you to reduce friction and manual intervention in the voting process and also ensure that all information is transparent to stakeholders when required, with the right security, governance and risk procedures in place.
SWIFT AI – How to get structure out of your unstructured data
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
EST
Esperance
Work session
The success of ISO 20022 with market infrastructures around the world has led to increasing community interest in using it in the cross-border payments space. The migration to this standard can be complex, however, especially in cases where there are large amounts of unstructured data in legacy systems. Discover how SWIFT’s latest work with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and natural language can facilitate the migration to ISO 200022, by bringing structure to unstructured data.
Alliance Interfaces 2019 – 2020 Roadmap
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
EST
HEIAN II
Work session
Looking for your yearly Alliance Access/Entry/Gateway Roadmap update? Do you want to know everything that is coming next year for your Alliance interfaces? This is where you will find it.
Our product managers will walk you through the updates for 2019-2020, they will cover the main new features in release 7.3, explain what we are doing to help you do security monitoring, and share some early information on release 7.4 plans for 2020.
If you want to be prepared for 2019-2020, this is the session you cannot afford to miss.
Our product managers will walk you through the updates for 2019-2020, they will cover the main new features in release 7.3, explain what we are doing to help you do security monitoring, and share some early information on release 7.4 plans for 2020.
If you want to be prepared for 2019-2020, this is the session you cannot afford to miss.
Using Alliance Managed Operations (AMO) to your strategic advantage
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
EST
OTTER
Work session
Organisations are facing continued pressures to reduce costs, manage regulatory compliance, and keep on top of cyber risks.
This is combined with a need to focus on core activities and
a reduced appetite to invest in SWIFT knowledge.
In addition, SWIFT continues to raise the bar in terms of technological innovation and security.
Driving this change means you are facing many changes and challenges with mandatory initiatives such as CSP and Release 7.2.
The AMO service is a solid response to those market trends. With AMO, you benefit from a trusted and highly skilled partner, offering operational excellence, discipline, and rigour. You can then focus on your core business, manage your costs better, and be confident that your Alliance infrastructure is expertly managed.
Join this interactive session to discuss these challenges and the value a managed service solution can bring.
This is combined with a need to focus on core activities and
a reduced appetite to invest in SWIFT knowledge.
In addition, SWIFT continues to raise the bar in terms of technological innovation and security.
Driving this change means you are facing many changes and challenges with mandatory initiatives such as CSP and Release 7.2.
The AMO service is a solid response to those market trends. With AMO, you benefit from a trusted and highly skilled partner, offering operational excellence, discipline, and rigour. You can then focus on your core business, manage your costs better, and be confident that your Alliance infrastructure is expertly managed.
Join this interactive session to discuss these challenges and the value a managed service solution can bring.
Cyber intelligence sharing
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
EST
BALLROOM IV
Work session
SWIFT shares cyber security threat intelligence, such as Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and Modus Operandi (MOs), for the ongoing attacks on SWIFT customers with all its customers via the SWIFT ISAC.
How do customers access the SWIFT ISAC portal? What data is in there?
How do customers get the information in machine readable STIX / TAXII format?
How do customers access the SWIFT ISAC portal? What data is in there?
How do customers get the information in machine readable STIX / TAXII format?
Alliance Portfolio – What’s new, what’s next
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
EST
HEIAN I
Work session
RESTRICTED ACCESS
The Alliance portfolio is continuously expanding to embrace new technology trends, new market initiatives and new customer demands.
Join this session to hear about the latest SWIFT developments and plans in the Alliance Portfolio space, including topics such as instant payments, multi-network, APIs, Alliance Warehouse and the new Cloud platform.
Join this session to hear about the latest SWIFT developments and plans in the Alliance Portfolio space, including topics such as instant payments, multi-network, APIs, Alliance Warehouse and the new Cloud platform.
How the Shared Infrastructure Programme (SIP) can increase the effectiveness of your risk management
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
EST
MEERMAN 1+2
Work session
In this session, SWIFT Users and Service Bureaux will learn how SIP contributes to a secure and reliable indirect connection to SWIFT. You will hear more about the SIP changes in 2019 that will be introduced in full alignment with the CSP evolution. We will also showcase the new ComMon tool which will improve the continued SIP compliance monitoring of the Service Bureau. We will explain what risk mitigation has been achieved so far and discuss the main hurdles in reaching full SIP compliance.
If you operate a Service Bureau, use a Service Bureau or have counterparties that use one, this interactive session will give you insights into current and planned initiatives to support Service Bureaux in the prevention of security incidents.
If you operate a Service Bureau, use a Service Bureau or have counterparties that use one, this interactive session will give you insights into current and planned initiatives to support Service Bureaux in the prevention of security incidents.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Keynote speech - The changing face of cyber-security
3:00 AM - 4:00 AM
EST
Ballroom I-III
Plenary session
In this thought-provoking, fast-paced and inspiring talk, Europe’s leading ethical hacker Jamie Woodruff will take you through the evolution of cyber-security, hacking and social engineering. Hewill explore the often-overlooked areas of weaknesses in many organisations, providing applicable insights into cybersecurity frameworks, human behaviour and tech policy. Jamie will sharesome of his incredible stories and physical infiltration anecdotes at well-known corporations, in order to prove the ease of accessing these mission-critical systems where companies hold their data. Including live on-stage demonstrations, this eye-opening session will also provide ideas for remedies that individuals and businesses can implement, in order to immediately ensure greater security and safety.
Cyber Resilience
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
HEIAN II
Work session
In an era of persistent cyber threats, Cyber Resilience is an evolving challenge. Bringing together the areas of information security, business continuity and (organizational) resilience, it is an area that is rapidly gaining recognition and becoming an integral part of how we do business.
In this session, you will learn from our experts in Professional Services about four critical cyber resiliency layers at SWIFT and how you better protect your SWIFT environment from interruption threats.
In this session, you will learn from our experts in Professional Services about four critical cyber resiliency layers at SWIFT and how you better protect your SWIFT environment from interruption threats.
Security Controls 2019
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
HEIAN I
Work session
The Customer Security Programme (CSP) is here to stay, and, as the threat landscape evolves, so must the CSP.
As a result, at the same time that work is underway across the SWIFT community to certify compliance with the 16 existing mandatory controls, we have been working on the next version of the controls framework - v2019.
In this session, we will share what’s coming up in the 2019 version of the security controls and answer your questions.
If you play a role in your institution’s compliance with the CSP, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss.
As a result, at the same time that work is underway across the SWIFT community to certify compliance with the 16 existing mandatory controls, we have been working on the next version of the controls framework - v2019.
In this session, we will share what’s coming up in the 2019 version of the security controls and answer your questions.
If you play a role in your institution’s compliance with the CSP, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss.
ISO 20022 for Managers – the time is now
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
MEERMAN 1+2
Work session
Following a large scale industry consultation, the
www.swift. com/news-events/news/swift-community-to-embark-on-migration-to-iso-20022-for-payments-traffic, SWIFT Board recommends a migration of payments traffic to ISO 20022.
Starting November 2021.This migration will complete the payments processing in ISO 20022, which is also being adopted by high-value, instant and domestic payments schemes around the world.
This is particularly true for Europe, where the SCT Inst scheme is starting to be widely adopted for Instant Payments, and where both Target2 and Euro1 communities are working towards a migration to ISO20022 in the same timeframe.
Join us for this session if you want to learn more about the migration strategy. We will discuss practical implications of adopting ISO 20022, share how SWIFT plans to facilitate the migration, and discuss solutions to help the community during the coexistence.
www.swift. com/news-events/news/swift-community-to-embark-on-migration-to-iso-20022-for-payments-traffic, SWIFT Board recommends a migration of payments traffic to ISO 20022.
Starting November 2021.This migration will complete the payments processing in ISO 20022, which is also being adopted by high-value, instant and domestic payments schemes around the world.
This is particularly true for Europe, where the SCT Inst scheme is starting to be widely adopted for Instant Payments, and where both Target2 and Euro1 communities are working towards a migration to ISO20022 in the same timeframe.
Join us for this session if you want to learn more about the migration strategy. We will discuss practical implications of adopting ISO 20022, share how SWIFT plans to facilitate the migration, and discuss solutions to help the community during the coexistence.
How SWIFT Business Intelligence solutions support your gpi journey
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
OTTER
Work session
Are you looking to develop your SWIFT gpi business case or prioritisation strategy?
Do you know where to gain the tangible insights needed to identify new business opportunities and adequately drive your resources?
Do you want to monitor your gpi adoption for each of your branches/subsidiaries?
Our BI for gpi portfolio will answer these questions, allowing you to assess your payments landscape, analyse your potential end-to-end gpi reach, and support the initiation of gpi payments. You will also be among the first to hear about the newly launched offering, gpi Observer Analytics, built upon our world-class secured Business Intelligence Watch platform. With gpi Observer Analytics, you will have all the payments routing intelligence and data to hand to see where to optimise or adapt your existing payment routings, leading to lower costs and faster payments.
Whatever stage you have reached in your gpi journey, don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the portfolio of BI products and services that will help equip you with unique business and operational insights only SWIFT can deliver.
Do you know where to gain the tangible insights needed to identify new business opportunities and adequately drive your resources?
Do you want to monitor your gpi adoption for each of your branches/subsidiaries?
Our BI for gpi portfolio will answer these questions, allowing you to assess your payments landscape, analyse your potential end-to-end gpi reach, and support the initiation of gpi payments. You will also be among the first to hear about the newly launched offering, gpi Observer Analytics, built upon our world-class secured Business Intelligence Watch platform. With gpi Observer Analytics, you will have all the payments routing intelligence and data to hand to see where to optimise or adapt your existing payment routings, leading to lower costs and faster payments.
Whatever stage you have reached in your gpi journey, don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the portfolio of BI products and services that will help equip you with unique business and operational insights only SWIFT can deliver.
Improving the security of payments
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
BALLROOM IV
Work session
Institutions continue to face significant regulatory and reputational risks related to cyber-fraud. Understand how SWIFT’s new Payment Controls service can be used to protect your payments from fraud and how the new SWIFT gpi stop and recall capabilities can help institutions respond rapidly to fraud threats.
Understanding your counterparty’s CSP attestation level
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
ESPERANCE
Work session
By now, all SWIFT customers should be checking what the attestation level of their counterparties is, and integrating this compliance data into their risk management processes.
How do customers use the KYC-SA tool, and how should customers with many counterparties use the ‘bulk-load’ feature?
How do customers use the KYC-SA tool, and how should customers with many counterparties use the ‘bulk-load’ feature?
Alliance Interfaces 2019 – 2020 Roadmap
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
HEIAN II
Work session
Looking for your yearly Alliance Access/Entry/Gateway Roadmap update? Do you want to know everything that is coming next year for your Alliance interfaces? This is where you will find it.
Our product managers will walk you through the updates for 2019-2020, they will cover the main new features in release 7.3, explain what we are doing to help you do security monitoring, and share some early information on release 7.4 plans for 2020.
If you want to be prepared for 2019-2020, this is the session you cannot afford to miss.
Our product managers will walk you through the updates for 2019-2020, they will cover the main new features in release 7.3, explain what we are doing to help you do security monitoring, and share some early information on release 7.4 plans for 2020.
If you want to be prepared for 2019-2020, this is the session you cannot afford to miss.
Security Controls 2019
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
BALLROOM V
Work session
The Customer Security Programme (CSP) is here to stay, and, as the threat landscape evolves, so must the CSP.
As a result, at the same time that work is underway across the SWIFT community to certify compliance with the 16 existing mandatory controls, we have been working on the next version of the controls framework - v2019.
In this session, we will share what’s coming up in the 2019 version of the security controls and answer your questions.
If you play a role in your institution’s compliance with the CSP, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss.
As a result, at the same time that work is underway across the SWIFT community to certify compliance with the 16 existing mandatory controls, we have been working on the next version of the controls framework - v2019.
In this session, we will share what’s coming up in the 2019 version of the security controls and answer your questions.
If you play a role in your institution’s compliance with the CSP, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss.
SWIFT’s API strategy
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
HEIAN I
Work session
In this session we will run you through SWIFT’s API strategy, from the standardisation of financial APIs to the exploration of various use cases that we are looking at.
We will take a closer look at SWIFT’s API roadmap and share information on the various activities that we are involved in.
We will take a closer look at SWIFT’s API roadmap and share information on the various activities that we are involved in.
Cyber intelligence sharing
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
OTTER
Work session
SWIFT shares cyber security threat intelligence, such as Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and Modus Operandi (MOs), for the ongoing attacks on SWIFT customers with all its customers via the SWIFT ISAC.
How do customers access the SWIFT ISAC portal?
What data is in there? How do customers get the information in machine readable STIX / TAXII format?
How do customers access the SWIFT ISAC portal?
What data is in there? How do customers get the information in machine readable STIX / TAXII format?
Financial Crime Compliance in the real-time world
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
ESPERANCE
Work session
As the global trend towards real-time payment systems continues to accelerate, one of the most pressing issues for banks is how to increase speed whilst meeting regulatory and compliance obligations. Learn about the important role that financial crime compliance will play in the move to real-time payments and how that can support and enable business growth.
mySWIFT – Enhance your gateway to support and make the most of Data-Analytics
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
Ballroom IV
Work session
The mySWIFT product team will be demonstrating the latest key additions to the mySWIFT portal:
• New “Knowledge Centre” – an easy-to-use portal covering all documentation resources (User Handbook, Knowledge Base tips, how-to videos, SWIFTSmart).
• New “Notification Centre” – a trusted notification tool for SWIFT Operational messages.
• Coming “myStatus” – a real-time snapshot providing the status of your connectivity components – VPNs, SNLs, LTs per location and per environment.
We will also brainstorm the potential and power of leveraging data-analytics in the area of efficiently operating and supporting your SWIFT footprint and services.
Be prepared to roll-up your sleeves and think outside the box to help unlock your future mySWIFT data analytics in an interactive workshop format.
• New “Knowledge Centre” – an easy-to-use portal covering all documentation resources (User Handbook, Knowledge Base tips, how-to videos, SWIFTSmart).
• New “Notification Centre” – a trusted notification tool for SWIFT Operational messages.
• Coming “myStatus” – a real-time snapshot providing the status of your connectivity components – VPNs, SNLs, LTs per location and per environment.
We will also brainstorm the potential and power of leveraging data-analytics in the area of efficiently operating and supporting your SWIFT footprint and services.
Be prepared to roll-up your sleeves and think outside the box to help unlock your future mySWIFT data analytics in an interactive workshop format.
Security Controls 2019 - Copied
5:45 AM - 6:45 AM
EST
BALLROOM V
Work session
The Customer Security Programme (CSP) is here to stay, and, as the threat landscape evolves, so must the CSP.
As a result, at the same time that work is underway across the SWIFT community to certify compliance with the 16 existing mandatory controls, we have been working on the next version of the controls framework - v2019.
In this session, we will share what’s coming up in the 2019 version of the security controls and answer your questions.
If you play a role in your institution’s compliance with the CSP, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss.
As a result, at the same time that work is underway across the SWIFT community to certify compliance with the 16 existing mandatory controls, we have been working on the next version of the controls framework - v2019.
In this session, we will share what’s coming up in the 2019 version of the security controls and answer your questions.
If you play a role in your institution’s compliance with the CSP, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss.
Will DLT be the next “internet” revolution in the financial industry?
7:15 AM - 7:45 AM
EST
SWIFTHub Theatre
For some years now, distributed ledger technology (DLT) has been positioned as the technology that will have the same effect on our society as the introduction of the internet itself. Numerous proofs of concept, prototypes and impact analyses later, do we still believe in the disruptive nature of DLT?
Cyber-security panel
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
EST
Ballroom I-III
Plenary session
Cyber-attacks continue to increase in frequency, sophistication and impact. These attacks have the potential to disrupt critical financial services and could undermine the security and trust in the financial system.
In its Global Risks Report for 2018, the World Economic Forum (WEF) ranked cyber-attacks third in their top 10 risks from a likelihood perspective and sixth in terms of impact. The WEF underlines that cyber security risks are growing in their prevalence and in their disruptive potential. Attacks against businesses have almost doubled within five years and incidents that would once have been considered extraordinary are more and more commonplace. The financial impact of cyber security breaches is rising.
In this panel session, we will discuss how to prevent and detect attacks and how to react fast and adequately in case you are being hit. We will look into how regulatory frameworks and policies may help prevent from cyber-attacks.
In its Global Risks Report for 2018, the World Economic Forum (WEF) ranked cyber-attacks third in their top 10 risks from a likelihood perspective and sixth in terms of impact. The WEF underlines that cyber security risks are growing in their prevalence and in their disruptive potential. Attacks against businesses have almost doubled within five years and incidents that would once have been considered extraordinary are more and more commonplace. The financial impact of cyber security breaches is rising.
In this panel session, we will discuss how to prevent and detect attacks and how to react fast and adequately in case you are being hit. We will look into how regulatory frameworks and policies may help prevent from cyber-attacks.
Cyber Resilience
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
EST
HEIAN I
Work session
In an era of persistent cyber threats, Cyber Resilience is an evolving challenge.
Bringing together the areas of information security, business continuity and (organizational) resilience, it
is an area that is rapidly gaining recognition and becoming an integral part of how we do business.
In this session, you will learn from our experts in Professional Services about four critical cyber resiliency layers at SWIFT and how you better protect your SWIFT environment from interruption threats.
Bringing together the areas of information security, business continuity and (organizational) resilience, it
is an area that is rapidly gaining recognition and becoming an integral part of how we do business.
In this session, you will learn from our experts in Professional Services about four critical cyber resiliency layers at SWIFT and how you better protect your SWIFT environment from interruption threats.
Alliance Messaging Hub – the future in financial messaging (RESTRICTED ACCESS)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
EST
BALLROOM V
Work session
RESTRICTED ACCESS
Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) is a future-proof financial messaging platform for financial institutions and market infrastructures. Scalable and customisable, AMH supports your business activities, with message processing allowing you to connect to multiple networks around the world.
With AMH, all of your financial flows can be orchestrated in a single hub, regardless of whether they require FIN, FileAct, ISO 20022, SEPA, local formats, instant payments, files, messages, or API calls.
Needs that are common across flows, such as sanctions screening, routing rules, reference data, message display, auditing, workflow and integration capabilities, can all be managed from one hub. You can simplify your messaging architecture and reduce complexity with a messaging hub that consistently provides top notch performance, security and availability, running 24/7 without fail.
AMH can also greatly reduce your costs, and will increase your efficiency and agility in coping with change.
Come and find out how AMH can take your financial messaging operations to the next level.
With AMH, all of your financial flows can be orchestrated in a single hub, regardless of whether they require FIN, FileAct, ISO 20022, SEPA, local formats, instant payments, files, messages, or API calls.
Needs that are common across flows, such as sanctions screening, routing rules, reference data, message display, auditing, workflow and integration capabilities, can all be managed from one hub. You can simplify your messaging architecture and reduce complexity with a messaging hub that consistently provides top notch performance, security and availability, running 24/7 without fail.
AMH can also greatly reduce your costs, and will increase your efficiency and agility in coping with change.
Come and find out how AMH can take your financial messaging operations to the next level.
Improving the security of payments
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
EST
HEIAN II
Work session
Institutions continue to face significant regulatory and reputational risks related to cyber-fraud. Understand how SWIFT’s new Payment Controls service can be used to protect your payments from fraud and how the new SWIFT gpi stop and recall capabilities can help institutions respond rapidly to fraud threats.
Evolution of SWIFT’s cloud platform
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
EST
BALLROOM IV
Work session
SWIFT is building a new cloud platform to enhance its offering for customers looking for a fully managed interface and connectivity to SWIFT.
Don’t miss this session, which will include a sneak preview of the new graphical interface with fully re-designed screens for a best-in-class user experience.
Don’t miss this session, which will include a sneak preview of the new graphical interface with fully re-designed screens for a best-in-class user experience.
SWIFT gpi – the new norm in cross-border payments
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
EST
ESPERANCE
Work session
The SWIFT community is to universally adopt the SWIFT gpi service, in a move that will see all 10,000 banks on SWIFT using gpi for cross border payments by the end of 2020.
Launched in early 2017, gpi already accounts for 25% of SWIFT cross-border payment traffic. More than 100 billion USD in SWIFT gpi messages is sent every day, enabling payments to be credited to end beneficiaries within minutes – many within seconds. Hundreds of thousands of payments are being sent daily across 450 country corridors, in more than 100 currencies. In major corridors, such as USA-China, gpi already accounts for nearly 50% of payment traffic.
It is this early success and fast adoption rate that led to the decision to move to universal gpi adoption.
Join this session to understand the business drivers behind SWIFT gpi and what this means for your institution.
Launched in early 2017, gpi already accounts for 25% of SWIFT cross-border payment traffic. More than 100 billion USD in SWIFT gpi messages is sent every day, enabling payments to be credited to end beneficiaries within minutes – many within seconds. Hundreds of thousands of payments are being sent daily across 450 country corridors, in more than 100 currencies. In major corridors, such as USA-China, gpi already accounts for nearly 50% of payment traffic.
It is this early success and fast adoption rate that led to the decision to move to universal gpi adoption.
Join this session to understand the business drivers behind SWIFT gpi and what this means for your institution.
DLT e-Voting solution – A proof of concept with SWIFT and Slib
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
EST
OTTER
Work session
SWIFT and Slib have joined forces to demonstrate a new way of implementing innovative solutions in a complex environment with problematics of security, compliance and scalability.
In this session we will show you how to use your SWIFT infrastructure, interfaces and network to access to an innovative e-Voting solution developed by Slib on blockchain technology hosted on the SWIFT Sandbox.
We will also explain how you can use a hybrid solution based on messaging and DLT to foster interoperability and avoid market fragmentation with ISO 20022 as the foundation, combined with exposed APIs to access the ledger, clearly allowing each participant to adopt the new technology at its own pace.
This e-Voting solution will allow you to reduce friction and manual intervention in the voting process and also ensure that all information is transparent to stakeholders when required, with the right security, governance and risk procedures in place
In this session we will show you how to use your SWIFT infrastructure, interfaces and network to access to an innovative e-Voting solution developed by Slib on blockchain technology hosted on the SWIFT Sandbox.
We will also explain how you can use a hybrid solution based on messaging and DLT to foster interoperability and avoid market fragmentation with ISO 20022 as the foundation, combined with exposed APIs to access the ledger, clearly allowing each participant to adopt the new technology at its own pace.
This e-Voting solution will allow you to reduce friction and manual intervention in the voting process and also ensure that all information is transparent to stakeholders when required, with the right security, governance and risk procedures in place
Buses leave for off-site dinner
12:30 PM - 5:00 PM
EST
Coffee break
Meeting point: Hotel lobby (ground floor)
Friday, November 30, 2018
Security Controls 2019
3:00 AM - 4:00 AM
EST
OTTER
Work session
The Customer Security Programme (CSP) is here to stay, and, as the threat landscape evolves, so must the CSP. As a result, at the same time that work is underway across the SWIFT community to certify compliance with the 16 existing mandatory controls, we have been working on the next version of the controls framework - v2019. In this session, we will share what’s coming up in the 2019 version of the security controls and answer your questions. If you play a role in your institution’s compliance with the CSP, this is a session that you can’t afford to miss.
Improving the security of payments
3:00 AM - 4:00 AM
EST
BALLROOM IV
Work session
Institutions continue to face significant regulatory and reputational risks related to cyber-fraud.
Understand how SWIFT’s new Payment Controls service can be used to protect your payments from fraud and how the new SWIFT gpi stop and recall capabilities can help institutions respond rapidly to fraud threats.
Understand how SWIFT’s new Payment Controls service can be used to protect your payments from fraud and how the new SWIFT gpi stop and recall capabilities can help institutions respond rapidly to fraud threats.
How SWIFT Business Intelligence solutions support your gpi journey
3:00 AM - 4:00 AM
EST
HEIAN II
Work session
Are you looking to develop your SWIFT gpi business case or prioritisation strategy?
Do you know where to gain the tangible insights needed to identify new business opportunities and adequately drive your resources? Do you want to monitor your gpi adoption for each of your branches/subsidiaries?
Our BI for gpi portfolio will answer these questions, allowing you to assess your payments landscape, analyse your potential end-to-end gpi reach, and support the initiation of gpi payments.
You will also be among the first to hear about the newly launched offering, gpi Observer Analytics, built upon our world-class secured Business Intelligence Watch platform.
With gpi Observer Analytics, you will have all the payments routing intelligence and data to hand to see where to optimise or adapt your existing payment routings, leading to lower costs and faster payments.
Whatever stage you have reached in your gpi journey, don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the portfolio of BI products and services that will help equip you with unique business and operational insights only SWIFT can deliver.
Do you know where to gain the tangible insights needed to identify new business opportunities and adequately drive your resources? Do you want to monitor your gpi adoption for each of your branches/subsidiaries?
Our BI for gpi portfolio will answer these questions, allowing you to assess your payments landscape, analyse your potential end-to-end gpi reach, and support the initiation of gpi payments.
You will also be among the first to hear about the newly launched offering, gpi Observer Analytics, built upon our world-class secured Business Intelligence Watch platform.
With gpi Observer Analytics, you will have all the payments routing intelligence and data to hand to see where to optimise or adapt your existing payment routings, leading to lower costs and faster payments.
Whatever stage you have reached in your gpi journey, don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the portfolio of BI products and services that will help equip you with unique business and operational insights only SWIFT can deliver.
Optimise your back-office functions with SWIFTRef, the must-have global reference data utility
3:00 AM - 4:00 AM
EST
MEERMAN 1+2
Work session
Faulty reference data and lack of system automation are
some of the main operational risks associated with financial transactions, resulting in higher costs, reduced STP levels, and reputational damage.
Also, thorough reference data is needed to meet the growing number of regulatory mandates and reporting needs.
With all the reference data you need to process your transactions, SWIFTRef helps you complete your due diligence processes and parts of your regulatory compliance obligations in an automated, easy-to-integrate manner.
During this session you will hear from SWIFTRef experts about how the revised BIC standard is impacting the SWIFTRef products. You will also learn about our new files, including Standing Settlement Instructions (SSI), National ID history and structure, account number structure and of course, SWIFT gpi.
You will also have an opportunity to find out more about our Entity Plus product, hear what’s coming up in the revamp of our Bankers World Online tool, and hear about our plans for the future, including the use of APIs.
some of the main operational risks associated with financial transactions, resulting in higher costs, reduced STP levels, and reputational damage.
Also, thorough reference data is needed to meet the growing number of regulatory mandates and reporting needs.
With all the reference data you need to process your transactions, SWIFTRef helps you complete your due diligence processes and parts of your regulatory compliance obligations in an automated, easy-to-integrate manner.
During this session you will hear from SWIFTRef experts about how the revised BIC standard is impacting the SWIFTRef products. You will also learn about our new files, including Standing Settlement Instructions (SSI), National ID history and structure, account number structure and of course, SWIFT gpi.
You will also have an opportunity to find out more about our Entity Plus product, hear what’s coming up in the revamp of our Bankers World Online tool, and hear about our plans for the future, including the use of APIs.
SWIFT AI – How to get structure out of your unstructured data
3:00 AM - 4:00 AM
EST
HEIAN I
Work session
The success of ISO 20022 with market infrastructures around the world has led to increasing community interest in using it in the cross-border payments space. The migration to this standard can be complex, however, especially in cases where there are large amounts of unstructured data in legacy systems. Discover how SWIFT’s latest work with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and natural language can facilitate the migration to ISO 200022, by bringing structure to unstructured data.
Operational challenges? Find out how we can help you manage them better
3:00 AM - 4:00 AM
EST
ESPERANCE
Work session
In today’s challenging environment, the financial community has a number of key priorities to consider as it seeks to stay relevant through market-centric innovation while ensuring secure and compliant processes and operations.
For our customers, time to market is critical as is guaranteeing worry-free operations. In 2019, SWIFT will bring to market a refreshed portfolio of Professional Services to help customers maintain their SWIFT environment.
You may prefer to manage the infrastructure yourself and benefit from preventive & proactive activities by our global support centres. Or perhaps you require hands-on help for specific tasks related to release and change management of your Alliance Lite2, Alliance Access (SAA) or Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) environment.
Or you are looking for complete peace of mind with our managed service offering. No matter what your operational challenges and needs are, you will be able to find the right value proposition within our renewed support and care services portfolio.
Join this session to learn more about how our professional services continue to evolve to better serve you as of 2019.
For our customers, time to market is critical as is guaranteeing worry-free operations. In 2019, SWIFT will bring to market a refreshed portfolio of Professional Services to help customers maintain their SWIFT environment.
You may prefer to manage the infrastructure yourself and benefit from preventive & proactive activities by our global support centres. Or perhaps you require hands-on help for specific tasks related to release and change management of your Alliance Lite2, Alliance Access (SAA) or Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH) environment.
Or you are looking for complete peace of mind with our managed service offering. No matter what your operational challenges and needs are, you will be able to find the right value proposition within our renewed support and care services portfolio.
Join this session to learn more about how our professional services continue to evolve to better serve you as of 2019.
Cyber Resilience
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
HEIAN I
Work session
In an era of persistent cyber threats, Cyber Resilience is an evolving challenge. Bringing together the areas of information security, business continuity and (organizational) resilience, it is an area that is rapidly gaining recognition and becoming an integral part of how we do business.
In this session, you will learn from our experts in Professional Services about four critical cyber resiliency layers at SWIFT and how you better protect your SWIFT environment from interruption threats.
In this session, you will learn from our experts in Professional Services about four critical cyber resiliency layers at SWIFT and how you better protect your SWIFT environment from interruption threats.
SWIFT gpi – the new norm in cross-border payment
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
HEIAN II
Work session
The SWIFT community is to universally adopt the SWIFT gpi service, in a move that will see all 10,000 banks on SWIFT using gpi for cross border payments by the end of 2020.
Launched in early 2017, gpi already accounts for 25% of SWIFT cross-border payment traffic. More than 100 billion USD in SWIFT gpi messages is sent every day, enabling payments to be credited to end beneficiaries within minutes – many within seconds.
Hundreds of thousands of payments are being sent daily across 450 country corridors, in more than 100 currencies. In major corridors, such as USA-China, gpi already accounts for nearly 50% of payment traffic.
It is this early success and fast adoption rate that led to the decision to move to universal gpi adoption.
Join this session to understand the business drivers behind SWIFT gpi and what this means for your institution.
Launched in early 2017, gpi already accounts for 25% of SWIFT cross-border payment traffic. More than 100 billion USD in SWIFT gpi messages is sent every day, enabling payments to be credited to end beneficiaries within minutes – many within seconds.
Hundreds of thousands of payments are being sent daily across 450 country corridors, in more than 100 currencies. In major corridors, such as USA-China, gpi already accounts for nearly 50% of payment traffic.
It is this early success and fast adoption rate that led to the decision to move to universal gpi adoption.
Join this session to understand the business drivers behind SWIFT gpi and what this means for your institution.
Cyber intelligence sharing
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
BALLROOM IV
Work session
SWIFT shares cyber security threat intelligence, such as Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and Modus Operandi (MOs), for the ongoing attacks on SWIFT customers with all its customers via the SWIFT ISAC.
How do customers access the SWIFT ISAC portal?
What data is in there?
How do customers get the information in machine readable STIX / TAXII format?
How do customers access the SWIFT ISAC portal?
What data is in there?
How do customers get the information in machine readable STIX / TAXII format?
Understanding your counterparty’s CSP attestation level
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
OTTER
Work session
By now, all SWIFT customers should be checking what the attestation level of their counterparties is, and integrating this compliance data into their risk management processes.
How do customers use the KYC-SA tool, and how should customers with many counterparties use the ‘bulk-load’ feature?
How do customers use the KYC-SA tool, and how should customers with many counterparties use the ‘bulk-load’ feature?
How the Shared Infrastructure Programme (SIP) can increase the effectiveness of your risk management
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
MEERMAN 1+2
Work session
In this session, SWIFT Users and Service Bureaux will learn how SIP contributes to a secure and reliable indirect connection to SWIFT. You will hear more about the SIP changes in 2019 that will be introduced in full alignment with the CSP evolution. We will also showcase the new ComMon tool which will improve the continued SIP compliance monitoring of the Service Bureau. We will explain what risk mitigation has been achieved so far and discuss the main hurdles in reaching full SIP compliance.
If you operate a Service Bureau, use a Service Bureau or have counterparties that use one, this interactive session will give you insights into current and planned initiatives to support Service Bureaux in the prevention of security incidents.
If you operate a Service Bureau, use a Service Bureau or have counterparties that use one, this interactive session will give you insights into current and planned initiatives to support Service Bureaux in the prevention of security incidents.
mySWIFT – Enhance your gateway to support and make the most of Data-Analytics
4:30 AM - 5:30 AM
EST
ESPERANCE
Work session
The mySWIFT product team will be demonstrating the latest key additions to the mySWIFT portal:
• New “Knowledge Centre” – an easy-to-use portal covering all documentation resources (User Handbook, Knowledge Base tips, how-to videos, SWIFTSmart).
• New “Notification Centre” – a trusted notification tool for SWIFT Operational messages.
• Coming “myStatus” – a real-time snapshot providing the status of your connectivity components – VPNs, SNLs, LTs per location and per environment.
We will also brainstorm the potential and power of leveraging data-analytics in the area of efficiently operating and supporting your SWIFT footprint and services. Be prepared to roll-up your sleeves and think outside the box to help unlock your future mySWIFT data analytics in an interactive workshop format.
• New “Knowledge Centre” – an easy-to-use portal covering all documentation resources (User Handbook, Knowledge Base tips, how-to videos, SWIFTSmart).
• New “Notification Centre” – a trusted notification tool for SWIFT Operational messages.
• Coming “myStatus” – a real-time snapshot providing the status of your connectivity components – VPNs, SNLs, LTs per location and per environment.
We will also brainstorm the potential and power of leveraging data-analytics in the area of efficiently operating and supporting your SWIFT footprint and services. Be prepared to roll-up your sleeves and think outside the box to help unlock your future mySWIFT data analytics in an interactive workshop format.
Closing Plenary: The Future of Banking
5:30 AM - 6:30 AM
EST
Ballroom I-III
Plenary session