The Swift Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android, a tool kit for developing Android mobile applications with Apple's Swift language. Instructions for getting started with the SDK, which was announced October 24, can be found at swift.org. The Swift SDK for Android opens avenues for cross-development and acceleration of innovation across the mobile ecosystem, Android workgroup member Joannis Orlandos wrote in announcing the release.
SWIFT - aka the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication - provides a messaging service that financial institutions use to move money around the world. The service is widely used but is slow because, as explained by ANZ Bank, SWIFT "doesn't actually move the money." "This means the instruction to pay and the movement of funds happen separately, often requiring a complex network of accounts and correspondent banks to enable a payment to be processed.