Continuous SWIFT CSP attestation evidence
Why payment teams move off annual attestation
01A wire that clears cannot be recalled. Controls that are only true once a year are not controls.
Continuous, not annual
CSCF controls are evaluated against live infrastructure telemetry every day instead of being attested once a year in a spreadsheet.
Intercept before settlement
Anomalies, duplicates and sanctions hits are caught in the payment path — while the transfer can still be stopped.
Evidence that proves itself
Every control state and screening decision is backed by a signed system event your regulator and assessor can follow.
One engine, many jurisdictions
The same transaction event satisfies FinCEN, GDPR and regional central bank mandates without a second compliance programme.
What your financial and security teams can automate
02One engine across the cross-border payment lifecycle — from SWIFT CSP compliance to continuous ISO 20022 transaction monitoring.
Continuous SWIFT CSP Compliance
Map active infrastructure and security telemetry directly to the SWIFT Customer Security Controls Framework (CSCF) without manual attestation spreadsheets.
ISO 20022 Normalization
Ingest fragmented global payment formats and automatically normalize them into canonical, structured messaging standards in real-time.
Cross-Border Fraud Correlation
Leverage AI to instantly correlate geographic anomalies, threat intelligence, and transaction velocity to intercept fraudulent wire transfers before settlement.
Real-Time AML & Sanctions Screening
Stream payment metadata against global watchlists continuously, ensuring instant compliance with OFAC and international sanctions directives.
Secure Zone Monitoring
Continuously track network telemetry and access logs to guarantee the strict isolation and hardening of your SWIFT secure zone infrastructure.
Automated Incident Reporting
Classify critical payment system anomalies instantly and draft the required regulatory notifications for central banks and international authorities.
Third-Party Gateway Health
Monitor the continuous health status, integration pools, and API latency of correspondent banks and global payment clearinghouses.
Transaction Deduplication
Identify and intercept duplicate wire requests across massive transaction queues automatically to prevent catastrophic double-settlement errors.
Multi-Jurisdiction Regulatory Mapping
Satisfy FinCEN, GDPR, and regional central bank mandates simultaneously by mapping a single cross-border transaction to all applicable compliance domains.
Annual attestation vs a continuous payment engine
03Most payment security tooling proves itself once a year. Expand any row to see what the difference produces.
Controls are self-attested once a year against a snapshot of the environment that changes the following week.
Typical artifact Attestation spreadsheet with no supporting event lineage.
Live infrastructure telemetry is mapped to each CSCF control as events arrive, so control state is current at all times.
Proof produced
- Per-control timeline of every passing and failing event
- Timestamped drift alerts with the triggering configuration change
Format translation runs in bespoke scripts per corridor, so mapping errors surface only when a message is rejected.
Typical artifact Rejected message log reviewed after the fact.
Incoming formats are normalized into canonical ISO 20022 structures in the stream, with every field mapping recorded.
Proof produced
- Field-level mapping record per normalized message
- Exception queue showing messages that failed validation and why
Batch review flags anomalies after settlement, when recovery depends on the correspondent bank's goodwill.
Typical artifact Post-settlement investigation case file.
Geography, velocity and threat intelligence are correlated in the payment path, so suspicious transfers are held before settlement.
Proof produced
- Interception record with the correlated signals that triggered it
- Release or block decision trail with reviewer and timestamp
Lists are refreshed on a schedule, leaving a window where screening runs against outdated sanctions data.
Typical artifact Periodic screening report per batch.
Payment metadata is streamed against continuously updated global watchlists, so OFAC and international directives apply immediately.
Proof produced
- Screening decision per transaction with the list version used
- Hit disposition history with the analyst rationale attached
Each regulator runs as a separate programme with its own owners, questionnaires and evidence collection.
Typical artifact Duplicated evidence per jurisdiction.
One transaction event is mapped to every mandate it satisfies, so FinCEN, GDPR and central bank obligations advance together.
Proof produced
- Cross-jurisdiction coverage map per transaction event
- Gap report showing only genuinely uncovered requirements
How the engine works
04Four stages running continuously across the cross-border payment lifecycle.
Ingest
Payment messages, secure zone telemetry, gateway health signals and correspondent bank feeds stream into one governed pipeline.
Normalize
Fragmented formats are converted into canonical ISO 20022 structures, and duplicate wire requests are intercepted in the queue.
Screen
Every transaction is correlated against sanctions lists, threat intelligence and velocity baselines before settlement is allowed.
Prove
CSCF control state, screening decisions and regulatory notifications are generated from that evidence and kept audit-ready.
The SWIFT CSP controls DECIMA runs
059 Customer Security Controls Framework controls evidenced year-round, ahead of the annual attestation.
- CSCF 1.1SWIFT infrastructure segregated from the general estate5 sourcesAutomated
- CSCF 1.2Privileged operating-system accounts controlled4 sourcesMonitored
- CSCF 2.3Security updates applied to SWIFT-related components6 sourcesAutomated
06Experience DECIMA in action
Drop in evidence, watch DECIMA evaluate every control automatically, and see how compliance decisions are sealed step by step.
Evidence ConsoleLive run
SWIFT CSP
Back-office data flow, operator access and the sanctions window around the payment estate.
- Documents
- 3
- Controls
- 4
- Frameworks
- 1
Your decision
SWIFT CSCF 6.4 — Sanctions screening logging
Flagged for remediation. The control owner is notified and the gap stays visible in the pack.
- Evidence hash
- a41f9c07e2b5…d38e
- Sealed
- October 31, 2026
- Signed by
- Compliance owner
KYC-SA attestation
The sealed pack becomes the attestation your counterparties check in the KYC Security Attestation application.
- MapControls mapped to the current Customer Security Controls FrameworkDone
- DraftAttestation drafted with the independent assessment referenceDone
- SubmitAttestation submitted to the KYC Security Attestation applicationDone
- SealPack hashed and attached to the attestationDone
- Attestation
- Submitted, one control open
- Framework
- CSCF, current version
Demo attestation — nothing is submitted to SWIFT from this page.
This is exactly what the auditor receives — the same run, the same artefacts, the same decisions.
SWIFT CSP questions, answered
07What financial institutions ask before moving to continuous evidence.
Stop attesting once a year. Prove every payment.
Bring us one corridor and we will show you the payment evidence a continuous engine produces from it.
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