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  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Blockchain
    No, Russia won’t replace Swift with the blockchain

    Because don’t be daft, honestly.

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Global Economy
    EU plans to evict largest Russian lender from Swift but spare energy bank

    Doubts surface over decision to allow Gazprombank to remain on global payments system

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    Currencies
    The dawn of financial warfare

    If the dollar’s standing is unassailable, the temptation to weaponise the dollar more often will be enormous.

  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
    Cyber Security
    Banks on alert for Russian reprisal cyber attacks on Swift

    Payments messaging system could be targeted as pinch point of global transactions network

  • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
    FT AlphavilleIran nuclear deal
    Iran’s experience signals banning Swift will not work as expected

    It was broad financial sanctions and fines, not cutting off access to the messaging network, that had the biggest impact.

  • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
    EU weighs cutting off Russian banks VTB and VEB from Swift

    Sberbank and Gazprombank not on proposed list for sanctions, say people with knowledge of talks

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    LexCurrencies
    Payments: Russian banks may boost renminbi’s status via China’s ‘Swift’ Premium content

    Moscow and Beijing share common cause to reduce use of dollars worldwide

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Sanctions and markets Premium content

    A dash for liquidity has begun, and will spread

  • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
    LexEuropean banks
    Sanctions: dithering EU willing to freeze Russian central bank — but not German homes

    It would be a glaring omission if punitive measures exclude energy payments via Swift

  • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    West to impose sanctions on Russian central bank and cut some lenders from Swift

    Pledges are most severe yet against Moscow as troops push into Ukraine’s second-largest city

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    The impact of throwing Russia out of Swift

    The messaging network has become the embodiment of the “weaponisation of finance”

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    The Top LineJonathan Guthrie
    Swift delay highlights divisions in US-led sanctions alliance against Russia

    Failure to kick Russia out of the global payments system exposes split in the west’s common purpose

  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    World leaders divided on whether to eject Russia from Swift payments system

    UK prime minister pushes ‘very hard’ for move while Germany has expressed reservations

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    Inside BusinessJonathan Guthrie
    Shutting out Russia from Swift system would not be a surgical strike

    Ban from payments alliance over Ukraine might not isolate country financially

  • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
    ExplainerGlobal Economy
    Will Russia be cut off from Swift if Moscow invades Ukraine?

    Country’s banks could be barred from global payments system but some say this is not the best way to put pressure on Putin

  • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    ECB warns European lenders on Russia sanctions risk

    Central bank takes action as US threatens ‘massive consequences’ if Moscow invades Ukraine

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    John Dizard
    US may draw the line at cutting off Russia from Swift

    Economic reprisals if the Kremlin invades Ukraine will not necessarily cover the world payments system

  • Thursday, 22 July, 2021
    Gillian Tett
    How blockchain is shaking Swift and the global payments system

    A crucial linchpin of the world’s financial plumbing is ripe for disruption

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    Digital currencies
    Twitter Spaces with Gottfried Leibbrandt, former CEO of SWIFT

    Leibbrandt joins us today to discuss his new book “The Pay Off”.

  • Tuesday, 4 December, 2018
    Swift takes on fintechs with new payment system

    Banks seek to hedge tech bets with legacy platform’s latest pilot

  • Monday, 5 November, 2018
    Iran
    Swift to comply with US sanctions on Iran in blow to EU
  • Monday, 5 November, 2018
    Iran nuclear deal
    Europe struggles to protect Iran trade as US reimposes sanctions

    Special channel to safeguard non-US transactions with Tehran remains in limbo

  • Tuesday, 9 October, 2018
    Global Economy
    Europe steps up drive to exempt Swift from Iran sanctions

    Finance ministers to press Mnuchin on payments issue at IMF meeting

  • Sunday, 26 August, 2018
    Wolfgang Münchau
    Tinkering will not deliver a stronger role for the euro

    Giving the currency a bigger global function means rewiring the EU’s machinery

  • Tuesday, 21 August, 2018
    German politics
    Germany calls for global payments system free of US

    Foreign minister seeks European autonomy on issues such as Iran

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