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Swift's blockchain ledger ready for initial use as 17 banks prepare tokenised cross-border payments

Read the item · published 2026-07-08

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Quote verified
2026-10-23 17:36 UTC
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SHA-256 4e96445cca233824ca54156e606d30fcf984dc67ac8fe01bcac1a0c01a8c392a · fetched 2026-10-23 · Wayback Machine copy ↗
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Official institutional Swift ↗
Saved excerpt around the quote (source text, 2026-10-23)
… financial system. Seventeen banks from six continents are preparing to pilot live transactions, reflecting strong global demand for the new addition to Swift's technology stack and its ability to unlock faster, flexible money movement across the world. The shared ledger provides participating banks with a secure orchestration layer for bank-issued tokenised deposits on their own ledgers, enabling them to move funds for customers -- including overnight and on weekends -- before completing final settlement through existing systems. Banks benefit from improved client experience and global liquidity efficiency without compromising compliance, credit, risk and control standards embedded in existing payment processing. It's the first use case for the ledger, which Swift announced …
Change log (10)
  1. 2026-10-23 Newsroom 2026-10-23 eve: +MAS/BNM/BOT BLOOM cross-border digital money (Tier 1, MAS media release); bank-negara-malaysia, bank-of-thailand entities; verify snap (b20c97d)
  2. 2026-10-23 Newsroom 2026-10-23 PM: +Riksbank letter to Riksdag Finance Committee on digital krona (PDF, Tier 1); riksbank entity; CBDC tracker entry; verify snapshots, pag (240394a)
  3. 2026-10-23 Tracker: HSBC RedCoin commercial status -> Live (23 Oct 2026, HSBC release); +SoFi Earn (SOFIE) initiative, SoFi institution, 2 sources; vfetch: one 5s retry on (cebc8d1)
  4. 2026-10-23 Newsroom 2026-10-23: +HSBC RedCoin live on PayMe (HKMA-licensed HKD stablecoin), +SoFi Earn (SOFIE) consumer tokenized deposit (via Nasdaq/Business Wire; SoFi I (62c1ed5)
  5. 2026-10-23 Verify: shared vfetch (PDF via pdftotext, retry, snapshot fallback for EUR-Lex/ESMA/ECB transient blocks, real mismatches still fail), verify-snapshots.json; de (a65ba64)
  6. 2026-10-23 AI/agent discoverability: llms.txt + llms-full.txt, AI-crawler robots rules, open data /api/{items,tracker,regulation}.json (CC BY 4.0) + Dataset JSON-LD on /da (e14054d)
  7. 2026-10-23 Audit ledger 2026-10-22, a11y fixes (key-facts list, tracker target size), screenshots b2-* (644d97b)
  8. 2026-10-23 P1/P2: homepage What-changed + tracker snapshot, regulatory timeline date-status labels/event-type filter/shareable URLs, methodology status & evidence definiti (95a103a)
  9. 2026-10-22 Phase 1 positioning: intelligence platform for banks entering digital assets (941ceee)
  10. 2026-10-22 Global coverage upgrade: daily pipeline + page watchers, 27 new verified items, per-item OG images, /data, new trackers (CBDC, MiCA CASP, bank services), entiti (7f6aa9a)

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  • “The shared ledger provides participating banks with a secure orchestration layer for bank-issued tokenised deposits on their own ledgers, enabling them to move funds for customers -- including overnight and on weekends -- before completing final settlement through existing systems.”

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