Benefits

Modern financial messaging solutions from one of the world's largest Swift service bureaus

Experience a consistent and customizable solution for payments connectivity that will increase efficiency, reduce risk and grow with the needs of your business.

Simplified Swift connectivity

As one of the world's largest Swift Service Bureaus, Finastra ensures banks, non-bank financial institutions and corporates can connect to the Swift network efficiently.

Expanded global footprint

Seamless access to 30+ domestic and international payment rails across 25 countries - ensuring reach in every major region.

Scalable and extensible services

Extensibility for future services without additional integrations, with scalability to support future volume growth.

Boost productivity

Improve STP rates through pre-configured, best-practice workflows and business rules.

Testimonial

A reliable, proven partner for banks and other institutions across the globe

Visa Europe Limited uses the Finastra Financial Messaging platform to enable funds transfer across the globe, saving us significant time, effort and money, and enabling our internal systems to meet the various formats and rules dictated by those markets.

Vincent Jackson Senior Director, Head of Settlement Operations – Europe, Visa
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Highlights

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. It also compares the leading vendors’ offerings and strategies, highlighting their primary strengths and challenges.

Finastra Financial Messaging vendor profile

Value-added services to drive growth and elevate the customer experience

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Financial crime and fraud prevention

Sanctions screening and fraud prevention tools pre-integrated with the Finastra Financial Messaging platform. 

Cross-border payments

Carefully curated third-party cross-border payment rails pre-integrated with the Finastra Financial Messaging platform.

Transformation service

Experience seamless message format translation embedded as a microservice within the Finastra Financial Messaging platform, with value-added overlay services for Swift CBPR+.

Swift CSP Assessment Services

Finastra offers an independent assessment service to help organizations achieve Swift CSP compliance in an easy and reliable way. 

Instant payments

Connect to established real-time payment services, including TCH RTP, FedNow, TIPS, SIC Instant Payments and more.

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Discover the full suite of solutions from Finastra Financial Messaging

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Online access to a full range of Bacs and Faster Payments services for UK customers.

Product Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

Financial Messaging FAQs

Finastra has three service bureau locations – United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland.

Yes. Finastra is a long-standing Swift partner, offering Swift connectivity products and services for more than 30 years. Finastra Financial Messaging is certified by Swift through the Interface Qualification Program and Finastra’s Swift operations though the Swift Shared Infrastructure Program (SIP).

Beyond Swift, Finastra offers connectivity to more than 15 market infrastructures and 30+ payment rails across 25 countries, ensuring reach in every major region.

Our FM platform pre-integrates carefully curated third-party solutions, such as those for fraud prevention and cross-border payments connectivity, to enhance the overall functionality and security of the financial messaging system.

We predominantly serve medium-sized banks, non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) and corporates that connects to Swift and other market infrastructures.

No, we are product agnostic. Our Financial Messaging gateway may be used as a standalone solution or integrated as standard with the Finastra Global PAYplus or Finastra Payments To Go payments hubs.

Are you prepared for the future of financial messaging?