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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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