SWIFT
| Company type | Cooperative society |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 3 May 1973 |
| Headquarters | La Hulpe, Belgium 50°44′04″N 4°28′43″E / 50.73444°N 4.47861°E |
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| Products | Financial telecommunication |
| Revenue | 1,024,000,000 euro (2023) |
Number of employees | >3000 |
| Website | www |
| Part of a series on financial services |
| Banking |
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The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), legally S.W.I.F.T. SC, is a cooperative established in 1973 in Belgium (French: Société Coopérative) and owned by the banks and other member firms that use its service. SWIFT provides the main messaging network through which international payments are initiated. It also sells software and services to financial institutions, mostly for use on its proprietary "SWIFTNet", and assigns ISO 9362 Business Identifier Codes (BICs), popularly known as "Swift codes".
As of 2018, around half of all high-value cross-border payments worldwide used the Swift network, and in 2015, Swift linked more than 11,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries and territories, who were exchanging an average of over 32 million messages per day (compared to an average of 2.4 million daily messages in 1995).
Swift is headquartered in La Hulpe near Brussels. It hosts an annual conference, called Sibos, specifically aimed at the financial services industry.