SWIFT to Offer KYC Service for Banks
Financial services firms will soon have at their fingertips a new report offered by SWIFT that provides a global overview of a banking institution’s correspondent banking activities. The new service will be available in January 2015 and forms part of SWIFT’s Know Your Customer (KYC) offering, which is designed to ...
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