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SWIFT SYSTEM
Why in news
Exclusion of Russian banks from using SWIFT system.
ABOUT
- It is formally known as the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).
- It is atrusted messaging system for banks and other financial institutions around the world.
- It doesn’t settle any money itself,but provides instruction messages for just how to give and receive specific funds.
- It is controlled by thecentral banks of the G10 countries, the European Central Bank, and the National Bank of Belgium.
- Prior to SWIFT, the only reliable means of message confirmation for international funds transfer was
- There are about 11,000 member banks in 200 countries and territories that use SWIFT.
- Since it began in 1973, SWIFT has become an integral part of the flow of global trade.
- India’s financial system has access to the SWIFT.
- Iran and North Korea are already out of the SWIFT platform.