Introduction to SWIFTNet

SWIFTNet is a global business messaging network for secure connectivity between institutions that participate in the financial services industry. As such, SWIFTNet is designed to satisfy institutional community requirements for inter-operability of mission-critical financial software solutions.

SWIFTNet provides an assurance of infrastructure reliability, availability, access control, correspondent and message authentication, message integrity, and confidentiality, to business applications that are interconnected among a community of institutions. Optionally, SWIFTNet also provides non-repudiation support, message validation, store-and-forward, and role-based access control.