A SWIFT payment is a cross-border payment processed through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication international payment network. This procedure is internationally recognised as the fastest and most secure system for sending financial messages internationally.The SWIFT international payment network sends more than 15 million payments every day and has not lost the documentation of a single transfer in its over 40-year history. Any failure to send funds to their payment destination is due to errors in the details included in the SWIFT payment.The vast majority of the world’s interbank network use SWIFT. Over 10,000 financial institutions worldwide operate in over 200 countries and territories with SWIFT.