The Future of Transaction Monitoring: Better ways to detect and disrupt financial crime
Institution(s): Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
New research commissioned by the SWIFT Institute analyses the current financial transaction-monitoring model, and suggests opportunities for the future. The surveillance of client transactions by financial institutions, known as transaction...
Cyber Resilience and Financial Organizations: A Capacity-building Tool Box – 2021
Institution(s): Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The SWIFT Institute continues to partner with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to bring you this updated toolkit to help financial institutions enhance their cyber security. The result is...
PET Research: Case studies of the use of privacy preserving analysis to tackle financial crime
Institution(s): FFIS (The Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing)
A new discussion paper by Nick Maxwell of FFIS (Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing) provides an overview of developments in the field of privacy preserving analytics and publishes ten case...
Securing the Future of the Financial Industry through Improved Gender Diversity
Institution(s): School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Exploring developments in the industry ten years after the financial crisis of 2007-9, new research sponsored by the SWIFT Institute aims to unravel and answer two key questions facing the...
Mapping the Shadow Payment System
Institution(s): Cornell University, Oxford University
Recent years have witnessed the emergence and rapid growth of a large, diverse, and constantly evolving shadow payment system. The shadow payment platforms (SPPs) that populate this system perform many...
A Cyber Security Agenda for India’s Digital Payment System
Institution(s): Gateway House
In the span of a mere decade, the Indian economy has gone from being cash-based to being heavily reliant on digital payment systems. This transition has been driven by domestic...
Public-Private Partnerships to Disrupt Financial Crime: An Exploratory Study of Australia’s FINTEL Alliance
Institution(s): Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Department of Home Affairs (Australian Government)
This paper examines whether a partnership comprising public and private sector organisations (PPP) can improve information sharing between those sectors and be effective in combating money laundering and terrorism financing-related...
Piloting the Exchange of Insider Threat Reports: Information Sharing Challenges to Proactive Cyber Fraud Identification
Institution(s): American University, Citibank
This paper builds on previous SWIFT Institute research (Sharing Insider Threat Indicators: Examining the Potential Use of SWIFT’s Messaging Platform to Combat Cyber Fraud) which proposed a protocol for sharing...