Experience streamlined connectivity to market infrastructures and payment rails
Finastra Financial Messaging offers a consistent, customizable solution for Swift connectivity that will increase efficiency, reduce risk, grow with your organization's business needs -- plus is extensible to other market infrastructures and payment rails.
Datos Vendor Evaluation: Financial Messaging
This Datos Insights Vendor Evaluation report — the first of its kind — explores key trends and vendors in the financial messaging space and discusses how technology is evolving to address new market needs and challenges.
Seamlessly connect to global, regional and domestic market infrastructures and payment rails
Reliable and scalable
Ensures seamless connectivity to Swift and other market infrastructures - backed by decades of experience in financial messaging.
Secure by design
Built and tested to meet the demanding security requirements of the banking industry.
Future-proof solution
Extensible, modular design supports evolving business needs and the ability to integrate future services, thus protecting your technology investment.
Discover the full suite of solutions from Finastra Financial Messaging
Cut through the complexity of payments connectivity
Discover a solution that alleviates the complexity of payments connectivity – not adds to it.
Expand global reach
Access global and domestic market infrastructures and payment rails across 25 countries and growing, ensuring reach in every major region.
Maintain compliance
Supports the latest industry mandates and regulations to ensure compliance, reduce risk and future-proof your investment.
Onboard quickly
Rapidly implemented and deployed, offering speed to market without challenging or expensive integration efforts.
Reduce costs
Pay only for the services consumed, lowering your cost of entry.
How the future of cross-border payments will be a co-existence of old and new
At Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, Finastra’s Sebastian Siebert and Thunes’ Abhi Kumar joined the FinextraTV Studio to unpack what’s next for cross‑border payments. They highlighted how new tech, challengers and fintechs are accelerating speed and efficiency—not by replacing incumbents, but by blending the old with the new. Both leaders agree: the real key to future success is partnership—leveraging third‑party solutions to help banks expand beyond their own boundaries.
Innovating finance together
Unlock broad access in a single solution
Market infrastructure and payment rail connectivity
As one of the world's largest Swift Service Bureaus, Finastra ensures institutions can efficiently connect to the Swift network as well as other market infrastructures and payment rails.
Cross-border payments
Easily connect to one of our pre-integrated cross-border payments providers and maintain your organization's competitive advantage.
Instant payments
Connect to established instant payment services for global markets, including TCH RTP, FedNow, SIC Instant Payments and TIPS.
Bacs and Faster Payments
For our UK customers, Finastra Bacsactive-IP is a fast, effective way to make payments for Direct Debit, Direct Credit and Faster Payments in a simple-to-use, SaaS-delivered solution.
Helpful resources to improve
Payments Connectivity FAQs
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