Through its own standard protocol, Mxit subscribers can also connect to other social networks and instant messaging applications such as Facebook, Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM and ICQ.
Tim Lind, head of legal entity and corporate actions at Thomson Reuters and an old hand at standards from working at SWIFT, T owerGroup, GoldenSource and Omgeo, wrote that SWIFT ISO working groups and industry participating have been working for 15 years on its ISO 15022 messagingprotocol.