SWIFT 2007 Price Reductions Reach 10.4% to Date

Record traffic growth enables SWIFT to offer additional savings to its

Brussels, 13 June 2007 – SWIFT announced today that the Board has approved new price reductions worth MEUR 8 for the remainder of 2007. This new initiative, made possible by record traffic growth, benefits all segments of the SWIFT community. It Includes a 4% reduction on FIN messaging to build on the 6.4 % reduction introduced in January 2007, as well as the cancellation of entry and other administration fees to lower costs for new and existing customers.

The following price reductions will take effect from 1 July 2007:
  • SWIFTNet FIN non-reporting: reduction of domestic and intra-institutionprices ranging from 4% to 12%;
  • SWIFTNet FIN reporting: prices for international traffic are aligned with domestic and intra-institution traffic fees, complemented by an overall reduction of 5%;
  • Messaging discount for high volume users: a new discount on messaging fees ranging from 10% to 25% for institutions reaching annual messaging thresholds above MEUR 20;
  • One-time entry fees to SWIFT are cancelled;
  • Market Infrastructure and Member-Administer Closed User Group annual administration fees are removed.
Francis Vanbever, CFO, SWIFT said, “Overall this will result in MEUR 8 in savings for our community for the second half of 2007. This demonstrates SWIFT’s commitment to continuous price reductions. Since July 2006, message prices have decreased by 19%. We recognise the importance of lowering barriers to entry and reducing pricing to maintain our competitive position.”

To find out more about how the price reductions affect individual organisations, users should contact André Boico, Director, Pricing, Information Services and Analysis, SWIFT at andre.boico@swift.com.

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About SWIFT
SWIFT is the industry-owned co-operative supplying secure, standardised messaging services and interface software to over 8,100 financial institutions in 208 countries and territories. SWIFT members include banks, broker-dealers and investment managers. The broader SWIFT community also encompasses corporates as well as market infrastructures in payments, securities, treasury and trade. Over the past ten years, SWIFT message prices have been reduced over 80%, and system availability approaches 5x9 reliability — 99.999% of uptime.

For more information about this press release, please refer to our website: www.swift.com or contact the SWIFT press office:
Kara Condon
SWIFT
Tel: +32 2 655 3740
Email: kara.condon@swift.com

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