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Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)

February 14, 2022
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In news- As part of ongoing tensions over Ukraine, the US has threatened Russia to exclude it from the SWIFT banking system. 

About SWIFT-

  • It is a global member-owned cooperative that is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
  • It enables financial entities to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardized and reliable environment.
  • It was founded in 1973 by a group of 239 banks from 15 countries which formed a co-operative utility to develop a secure electronic messaging service and common standards to facilitate cross-border payments. 
  • In order to use its messaging services, customers need to connect to the SWIFT environment.
  • It also sells software and services to financial institutions, mostly for use on its proprietary “SWIFTNet”, and ISO 9362 Business Identifier Codes (BICs), popularly known as “SWIFT codes”. 
  • Swift Transfer is also called International Money Transfer. 
  • It does not facilitate funds transfer, rather, it sends payment orders, which must be settled by correspondent accounts that the institutions have with each other. 
  • To exchange banking transactions, each financial institution must have a banking relationship by either being legally organized as a bank or through its affiliation with at least one bank. 
  • While SWIFT transports financial messages in a secure manner, it does not hold accounts for its members nor performs any form of clearing or settlement.
  • There are several ways of connecting to it: directly through permanent leased lines, the Internet, or SWIFT’s cloud service (Lite2); or indirectly through appointed partners. 
  • Messages sent by SWIFT’s customers are authenticated using its specialized security and identification technology and Encryption is added as the messages leave the customer environment and enter the SWIFT Environment. 
  • SWIFT hosts an annual conference, called Sibos, specifically aimed at the financial services industry.

Impact of excluding Russia from SWIFT-

  • Russia will not receive foreign currency, and European countries dependent on Russia, will not receive oil, gas, metals, and other important components. 
  • The exclusion from SWIFT will make it nearly impossible for financial institutions to send money in or out of Russia. 
  • The move will also shrink the Russian economy. 
  • Research shows Iran has lost half of its oil export revenue and close to one-third of its foreign trade following the SWIFT disconnection.
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