"SWIFT"
Tue 10 Apr 2018 01:40:13 bbd970 No.979093
Actions today [raid] will be met w/ swift action.
FBI burning midnight oil.
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https:// www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/ban-on-cryptocurrency-transactions-imposed-by-iran-central-bank
Despite the lifting of some sanctions including the ban on SWIFT when the nuclear deal was implemented in 2016, most international banks are shying away from dealing with Iran from fear of running into remaining U.S. restrictions and being penalized.
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interbank_Financial_Telecommunication
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) provides a network that enables financial institutions worldwide to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardized and reliable environment. SWIFT also sells software and services to financial institutions, much of it for use on the SWIFTNet Network, and ISO 9362. Business Identifier Codes (BICs, previously Bank Identifier Codes) are popularly known as "SWIFT codes".
SWIFT is a cooperative society under Belgian law owned by its member financial institutions with offices around the world. SWIFT headquarters, designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura are in La Hulpe, Belgium, near Brussels. The chairman of SWIFT is Yawar Shah,[2] originally from Pakistan,[3] and its CEO is Gottfried Leibbrandt, originally from the Netherlands.[
The SWIFT secure messaging network is run from two data centers, one in the United States and one in the Netherlands. These centers share information in near real-time. In case of a failure in one of the data centers, the other is able to handle the traffic of the complete network. SWIFT uses submarine communications cables to transmit its data.[9]
SWIFT opened a third data center in Switzerland, which started operating in 2009
SWIFTREF[edit]
Swift Ref, the global payment reference data utility, is SWIFT’s unique reference data service. Swift Ref sources data direct from data originators, including central banks, code issuers and banks making it easy for issuers and originators to maintain data regularly and thoroughly. SWIFTRef constantly validates and cross-checks data across the different data sets.[14]
SWIFTNet Mail[edit]
SWIFT offers a secure person-to-person messaging service, SWIFTNet Mail, which went live on 16 May 2007.[
As mentioned above SWIFT had disconnected all Iranian banks from its international network as a sanction against Iran. However, as of 2016 Iranian banks which are no longer on international sanctions lists, were reconnected to SWIFT[34