# SWIFT

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/swift/  
**Website:** https://www.swift.com  
**APIs profiled:** 11

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.

## Kin Score — 38.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.4 from 38.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 60.8 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 27.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 30.3 |
| Access Clarity | 30.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Banking & Open Finance**: 48.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Enterprise · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (11)

- **SWIFT GPI API** — The SWIFT GPI (Global Payments Innovation) API enables financial institutions to track cross-border payment transactions in real time, update payment statuses, and manage stop-a...
- **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 IBANs API** — IBAN (International Bank Account Number) lookup and validation
- **SWIFT LEIs API** — LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) lookup and validation
- **SWIFT National IDs API** — National ID lookup and BIC resolution

## Agentic access (1)

- **Swift Agentic Access** — 22 operations

## Security (2)

- **Swift Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Swift Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Swift Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Banking, Cross-Border Payments, Financial Messaging, Financial-Services, GPI, ISO 20022, Payments

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/swift/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.