IBM Expands Its Digital Banking Infrastructure with Swift Integration and Digital Asset Haven On-Premises

IBM enables financial institutions to connect to Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger for tokenized deposit transactions with beta IBM Digital Asset Haven On-Premises deployment, giving institutions greater deployment control of their digital asset technology stack.

ARMONK, N.Y. , Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced two key capabilities designed to help financial institutions, governments, and other regulated organizations provide digital asset services while prioritizing enterprise-grade security and control.

In a beta offering, IBM Digital Asset Haven clients can now connect to permissioned blockchain networks, including Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger.

IBM is also extending IBM Digital Asset Haven to an on-premises beta deployment option, enabling clients to manage digital asset operations entirely within their own data centers.

According to J.P. Morgan Payments , 93% of financial institutions are modernizing their payments infrastructure¹ as banks look to move money more efficiently across borders and manage a growing range of digital assets.

This shift is increasing demand for infrastructure that can support new forms of digital transactions while meeting banks' security, compliance, and operational requirements.

IBM advances cross-border payments with Swift's ledger IBM Digital Asset Haven now enables clients to connect to Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger.

Swift is the globally inclusive cooperative that connects 12,500 financial institutions across 200+ markets.

With the beta release of the IBM Digital Asset Haven ISO 20022 Messaging Adapter feature, institutions can instruct tokenized deposit transactions using standard ISO 20022 messages through the shared ledger infrastructure, allowing them to build on existing payment message formats and operational processes instead of blockchain-specific workflows.

Swift's ledger supports bank-issued tokenized deposits and participating IBM clients can move digital assets 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, ahead of final settlement through existing systems, while continuing to use established Swift standards and banks' own compliance processes.

Announced at Sibos 2025 and designed in collaboration with more than 40 financial institutions worldwide, Swift's ledger moved from concept to activation within nine months and is being put to first use by 17 first-mover institutions piloting tokenized deposit transactions.

Financial institutions already participating in the program have successfully tested tokenized deposits on the Swift shared ledger with IBM Digital Asset Haven, demonstrating how banks can use existing standards and compliance processes to explore new models for moving money digitally.

IBM Digital Asset Haven extends to on-premises beta deployment IBM is also extending Digital Asset Haven, a platform built to help banks, governments, and other regulated organizations manage and secure digital assets, to an on-premises beta deployment for clients.

This deployment allows organizations to manage digital assets such as stablecoins and tokenized deposits entirely within their own environments.

Since launching IBM Digital Asset Haven SaaS and hybrid deployment options in October 2025, banking and payment institutions across multiple continents have begun implementing digital asset use cases with IBM Digital Asset Haven.

The new on-premises deployment option is designed to run entirely inside a client's own data center on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE with no dependency on public cloud infrastructure.

Clients can deploy it on compatible IBM infrastructure already in their environment or add new capacity based on their requirements.

IBM Digital Asset Haven on-premises differentiates from existing deployment options by being built to combine client control with increased performance, speed, and scale for digital asset operations, while prioritizing enterprise-grade security.

IBM Digital Asset Haven's on-premises key features include...