SWIFT, the global provider of secure financial messaging services, has announced that SWIFT India has now gone live after receiving approval from the Reserve Bank of India in April 2015. SWIFT India is a joint venture with nine partner banks — Axis Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Canara Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Punjab National Bank, State Bank of India and Union Bank of India — to address the domestic market needs of the Indian financial services industry.