"This time last year, I stood on the Sibos stage in Frankfurt and said we would deliver a blockchain-based ledger. And I know I caught some people by surprise. Swift and blockchain? TradFi and DeFi? Could they really go together? Can Swift really pull it off?
Twelve months later, the Swift ledger is live and in use by some of the world's largest financial institutions.
By the end of the year, we will have at least 19 banks using it across 5 major currencies to power 24/7 payments using tokenised deposits."
— Javier Pérez-Tasso, Swift’s CEO, Sibos 2026