SWIFT
SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) is a global member-owned cooperative providing secure financial messaging services and reference data to financial institutions worldwide. SWIFT offers REST APIs for cross-border payment tracking (GPI), payment pre-validation, reference data lookup (SwiftRef), transaction screening, instant payments, and more. APIs use OAuth 2.0 authentication and are documented using OpenAPI 3.0.
SWIFT publishes 21 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Payment Pre-validation API, Account Numbers API, BBANs API, and 18 more. Tagged areas include Banking, Cross-Border Payments, Financial Messaging, Financial Services, and GPI.
The SWIFT catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
SWIFT’s developer surface includes changelog, sandbox, documentation, authentication, API reference, support, and 37 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Standards implemented 3
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 21
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Payment Pre-validation API
The SWIFT Payment Pre-validation API allows financial institutions and PSPs to verify payment instruction data against reference data and counterparty information before executi...
Transaction Screening API
The SWIFT Transaction Screening API enables financial institutions to submit transactions to the SWIFT Transaction Screening Service (TSS) for sanctions and compliance screening...
SWIFT Account Numbers API
Account number format validation
SWIFT BBANs API
BBAN to IBAN conversion
SWIFT BICs API
BIC (Bank Identifier Code) lookup and validation
SWIFT Country Codes API
Country code lookup and validation
SWIFT Currency Codes API
Currency code lookup and validation
SWIFT LEIs API
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) lookup and validation
SWIFT National IDs API
National ID lookup and BIC resolution
SWIFT IBANs API
IBAN (International Bank Account Number) lookup and validation
SWIFT Account Information API
The Account Information API from SWIFT — 3 operation(s) for account information.
SWIFT Distributions API
The distributions API from SWIFT — 4 operation(s) for distributions.
SWIFT Fileact API
The fileact API from SWIFT — 10 operation(s) for fileact.
SWIFT Fin API
The fin API from SWIFT — 13 operation(s) for fin.
SWIFT Get Changed Payment Transactions API
Payment Transactions - Getting the Last Changed Payment Transactions Purpose of the API * This API is a delta query to get all payment update information starting from a given d...
SWIFT Get Payment Transaction Details API
Payment Transactions - Getting a Payment Transaction Purpose of the API * This API is a payment query to get detailed information regarding a given payment. It requires the UETR...
SWIFT Iban National IDs API
The iban_national_ids API from SWIFT — 1 operation(s) for iban_national_ids.
SWIFT Interact API
The interact API from SWIFT — 13 operation(s) for interact.
SWIFT Pmis API
The pmis API from SWIFT — 5 operation(s) for pmis.
SWIFT Reporting API
The Reporting API from SWIFT — 2 operation(s) for reporting.
SWIFT Status Confirmations API
Payment Transactions - Updating the Status of a gCCT Payment Transaction
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Postman Collections 8
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
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Open Collections 9
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
SWIFT SwiftRef Account Numbers API
OPEN COLLECTIONSWIFT SwiftRef Account Numbers BBANs API
OPEN COLLECTIONSWIFT SwiftRef Account Numbers BICs API
OPEN COLLECTIONSWIFT SwiftRef Account Numbers Country Codes API
OPEN COLLECTIONSWIFT SwiftRef Account Numbers Currency Codes API
OPEN COLLECTIONSWIFT SwiftRef Account Numbers IBANs API
OPEN COLLECTIONSWIFT SwiftRef Account Numbers LEIs API
OPEN COLLECTIONSWIFT SwiftRef Account Numbers National IDs API
OPEN COLLECTIONSWIFT SwiftRef API
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Agent Skills 6
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
swift-confirm-gpi-payment-status
AGENT SKILLswift-fetch-account-balances-and-statements
AGENT SKILLswift-resolve-bic-and-iban
AGENT SKILLswift-send-fin-message
AGENT SKILLswift-track-gpi-payment
AGENT SKILLswift-verify-beneficiary-account
AGENT SKILLSWIFT API pricing
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Swift Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Swift Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
SWIFT
SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Swift Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Swift Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
SWIFT — jsonschema rules
SPECTRALSWIFT API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 36
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
AccountFormatValidationStatus1
JSON SCHEMAAccountVerificationRequest
JSON SCHEMABicDetails
JSON SCHEMABicIsoDetails
JSON SCHEMASWIFT BIC
JSON SCHEMACashAccount41
JSON SCHEMACountryCodeDetails
JSON SCHEMACurrencyCodeDetails
JSON SCHEMACurrency
JSON SCHEMADistribution
JSON SCHEMAEligibilityCheckStatus1
JSON SCHEMAFileActArchiveDownloadResponse
JSON SCHEMAFileActMessageDownloadResponse
JSON SCHEMAFinEmission
JSON SCHEMAIbanDetails
JSON SCHEMASWIFT IBAN
JSON SCHEMAInterActMessageEmission
JSON SCHEMALeiDetails
JSON SCHEMALinks
JSON SCHEMANationalIdDetails
JSON SCHEMANationalId
JSON SCHEMAPaymentInstruction
JSON SCHEMAPaymentInstructionValidation
JSON SCHEMAPaymentPurposeValidationStatus1
JSON SCHEMAPaymentStatusRequest9
JSON SCHEMAPaymentTransaction149
JSON SCHEMAPmiDetails
JSON SCHEMAPmiParticipantDetails
JSON SCHEMAPmiParticipants
JSON SCHEMAReachabilityResult
JSON SCHEMAReadChangedPaymentTransactionsResponse2
JSON SCHEMASendBatchMessagesResponse
JSON SCHEMAStatementLineSummary
JSON SCHEMAStatement
JSON SCHEMATransactionSummary1
JSON SCHEMAValidityResult
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JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Swift Bic Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 2
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Swift Validate Iban Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 10
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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Source (apis.yml)
SWIFT API — frequently asked questions
Does SWIFT have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 21 APIs from SWIFT, including Payment Pre-validation API, Transaction Screening API and SWIFT Account Numbers API, and 18 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the SWIFT API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 20 OpenAPI specifications for SWIFT, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the SWIFT API?
SWIFT uses bearer-token authentication (http/oauth2 · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Swift Authentication.
Is the SWIFT API ready for AI agents?
SWIFT has a Kin Score of 44.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 34.2 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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