Belgium’s Society for Worldwide InterBank Financial Telecommunications
A TIMELY FINANCIAL TOPIC
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By Staff Reporters
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Belgium’s Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) runs a messaging service that facilitates transactions across 11,000+ financial institutions globally. Think of it as the “Gmail of global banking.”
Entities in every country except North Korea use SWIFT to shuffle trillions of dollars’ worth of funds across borders. And Russia is a SWIFT power user—as a major supplier of energy and other goods, it ranks sixth globally for payment messages sent on SWIFT. So if Russia were cut off from SWIFT, “the nation would essentially be severed from much of the global financial system,” the NYT wrote.
CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/0826102549
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SWIFT: https://www.swift.com/
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Filed under: Accounting, Funding Basics, Glossary Terms, Investing, Taxation | Tagged: Gmail of global banking, North Korea, Russia, Society for Worldwide InterBank Financial Telecommunications, SWIFT banking, Ukraine |
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