SWIFT are working very hard to promote BPOs. In their recent (31 October 2013) they describe BPOs as “Facilitating multi-banking in supply chain finance to mitigate payment risks and enable financing opportunities.”

Overall BPO position:

Source & Copyright©2013 -  SWIFT 

Banks live on BPO (with live transactions and one corporate case study):

Source & Copyright©2013 -  SWIFT 

Banks ready for live use of BPO (but with no love BPO transactions):

• Bank al Etihad (Jordan)
• Barclays
• Byblos Bank (Lebanon)
• Commercial Bank of Dubai
• Commerzbank
• Deutsche Bank
• J.P. Morgan
• Kasikornbank (Thailand)
• RHB Bank
• Standard Bank of South Africa
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
• UniCredit.

There are 56 banking groups adopting BPO with 156 BIC8 and BIC11 in 42 countries.

Overall TSU position:
There are 83 banking groups reachable on SWIFT’s TSU (Trade Services Utility: a centralised matching and workflow engine) and those with multiple BIC8s on the TSU are:

Source & Copyright©2013 -  SWIFT 

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For once SWIFT have downplayed the BPO progress, they describe it as ‘BPO adoption grows steadily’, it is far more than that.