Archiv: Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)


22.07.2023 - 13:34 [ RT.com ]

Moscow lists seven conditions for grain deal resumption

Listing Russia’s conditions, Polyansky insisted that sanctions on the country’s grain and fertilizer exports to global markets should be lifted “in practical terms rather than just in words” while all obstacles to Russian financial institutions involved in the sector must also be removed, including their reconnection to the SWIFT payment system.

03.03.2023 - 17:48 [ wise.com ]

SABRATWW XXX Sberbank Europe AG in Abwicklung BIC/SWIFT-Code Daten

Diese Codes werden genutzt, um Geld zwischen verschiedenen Banken zu überweisen – sie kommen zumeist bei internationalen Überweisungen zum Einsatz. Banken verwenden diesen Code außerdem, um untereinander Nachrichten auszutauschen.

03.03.2023 - 17:39 [ wise.com ]

GAZPRUMM XXX GAZPROMBANK (JOINT – STOCK COMPANY) BIC/SWIFT-Code Daten

Der SWIFT-Code – mitunter auch SWIFT-Nummer genannt – ist ein einheitliches Format für Business Identifier Codes (BIC). Banken und Finanzinstitute nutzen diesen Code, um sich weltweit identifizieren zu können. Der Code gibt an, um welche Institution es sich handelt und wo sich diese befindet – sozusagen eine internationale Bankleitzahl oder ein internationaler Ausweis.

03.03.2023 - 17:17 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

Ukraine introduces sectoral sanctions for 50 years against all banks and nonbank financial institutions of Russia – decree

They include 10 points, in particular: stop transactions with assets owned by financial institutions of the Russian Federation; prohibition of establishing business relations, including correspondent ones; prohibition of transactions and investments in favor of financial institutions of the Russian Federation.

This list also includes a ban on the purchase of securities and other financial instruments issued by financial institutions of the Russian Federation, with the exception of the alienation (including gratuitous) of securities in favor of the state of Ukraine.

08.12.2022 - 04:20 [ EU commission - ec.europa.eu ]

Press statement by President von der Leyen on the ninth package of sanctions against Russia

(7 December 2022)

Second, we propose to introduce sanctions against three additional Russian banks, including a full transaction ban on the Russian Regional Development Bank to further paralyse Putin‘s cash machines.

08.12.2022 - 04:01 [ Chris Merchant / NItter ]

The EU prevented the US UK plan to ban either Sberbank or Gazprombank from SWIFT, if the EU had agreed the invasion would have been over in March.

(15.11.2022)

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27.09.2022 - 22:52 [ eprimefeed.com ]

Yermak: EU discusses disconnection of Gazprombank and three other Russian banks from SWIFT

“The EU is reported to be discussing the disconnection of four more Russian banks from SWIFT: Gazprombank, Alfa-Bank, Rosbank and Tinkoff Bank,” he said, without giving his sources.

Yermak pointed out that Gazprombank was paying for the export of Russian gas.

27.06.2022 - 01:55 [ Erich Moechel / ORF.at ]

EU-Kommission mauert zu Data-Mining im SWIFT-System

Wie aus internen Dokumenten hervorgeht, die von der CIA im Februar veröffentlicht werden mussten, betreibt der US-Geheimdienst seit 2016 Data-Mining in Finanztransaktionsdaten „nicht amerikanischer Herkunft“. Die Dokumente enthalten reihenweise Indizien dafür, dass es sich dabei um jene Datensätze aus dem europäischen Finanztraktionssystem SWIFT handelt, die Europol im Rahmen des TFTP-Vertrags gegen Terrorfinanzierung laufend an das US-Finanzministerium übermittelt.

Der TFTP-Vertrag untersagt jede Datenweitergabe wie auch Data-Mining jedoch explizit. Auf eine diesbezügliche Anfrage von ORF.at erklärte die EU-Kommission nun, sie sei über diesen Sachverhalt nicht informiert.

04.05.2022 - 09:22 [ Reuters ]

EU to remove Sberbank, two other Russian banks from SWIFT

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to remove Russia’s biggest bank Sberbank and two other banks from the international SWIFT transaction and messaging system in another blow to the Russian financial system over the war in Ukraine.

13.04.2022 - 14:38 [ EPP Group, The largest political group in the @Europarl_EN / Twitter ]

EU sanctions work and have made an impact on the Russian economy. However, we need to close the loopholes in order to cut off the financial drip for the war machine. We call on the EC to urgently extend #SWIFT sanctions to more banks from #Russia and #Belarus.

05.04.2022 - 20:51 [ Seán Kelly MEP, MEP Ireland South | Leader @FineGael in EP / Twitter ]

Images of the massacre of civilians in #Bucha and the Russian war crimes in Ukraine are truly heartbreaking. Along with 207 MEPs, the @FineGael Delegation is calling for an embargo on Russian energy imports, exclusion of ALL Russian banks from SWIFT + ban Russia from EU ports.

05.04.2022 - 20:29 [ Inna Sovsun, Member of #Ukraine Parliament / Twitter ]

The EU boasted of #Russia‘s disconnection from SWIFT. But they shut down only 7 of 300 banks. The largest bank, Sberbank, evaded sanctions. And Gazprombank too.

This bank helped Russian Defense Ministry buy unmanned aerial vehicles & electronic reconnaissance equipment.

05.04.2022 - 20:23 [ bank-code.net ]

GAZPRUMM XXX – SWIFT Code (BIC) – GAZPROMBANK (JOINT – STOCK COMPANY) in MOSCOW – RUSSIAN FEDERATION

GAZPRUMM swift code is the unique bank identifier for GAZPROMBANK (JOINT – STOCK COMPANY)‘s head office branch located in MOSCOW – RUSSIAN FEDERATION and it‘s used to verify financial transactions such as a bank wire transfers (international wire transfers). Check the GAZPRUMMXXX SWIFT / BIC code details below.

05.04.2022 - 20:18 [ BBC ]

EU targets Russian coal and ships in new sanctions

EU officials had earlier indicated the focus would be on enforcing existing measures.

03.04.2022 - 17:56 [ Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine / Twitter ]

Bucha massacre was deliberate. Russians aim to eliminate as many Ukrainians as they can. We must stop them and kick them out. I demand new devastating G7 sanctions NOW: -Oil, gas, coal embargo -Close all ports to Russian vessels and goods -Disconnect all Russian banks from SWIFT

27.02.2022 - 09:24 [ Tagesschau.de ]

SWIFT-Ausschluss einiger russischer Banken

Als Reaktion auf die russische Großoffensive in der Ukraine haben Deutschland, die USA, Frankreich, Kanada, Italien, Großbritannien und die EU-Kommission gemeinsam weitere Finanzsanktionen gegen Russland beschlossen. So werden all die russischen Banken, die bereits von der internationalen Gemeinschaft sanktioniert sind, vom internationalen Zahlungssystem SWIFT ausgeschlossen, teilte Regierungssprecher Steffen Hebestreit mit.

Soweit erforderlich, sollen weitere russische Banken dazukommen.

27.02.2022 - 09:16 [ Regierung des Vereinigten Königreichs - Gov.uk ]

Joint Statement on Further Restrictive Economic Measures: 26 February 2022

Specifically, we commit to undertake the following measures:

First, we commit to ensuring that selected Russian banks are removed from the SWIFT messaging system. This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally.

Second, we commit to imposing restrictive measures that will prevent the Russian Central Bank from deploying its international reserves in ways that undermine the impact of our sanctions.

Third, we commit to acting against the people and entities who facilitate the war in Ukraine and the harmful activities of the Russian government. Specifically, we commit to taking measures to limit the sale of citizenship—so called golden passports—that let wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government become citizens of our countries and gain access to our financial systems.

Fourth, we commit to launching this coming week a transatlantic task force that will ensure the effective implementation of our financial sanctions by identifying and freezing the assets of sanctioned individuals and companies that exist within our jurisdictions. As a part of this effort we are committed to employing sanctions and other financial and enforcement measures on additional Russian officials and elites close to the Russian government, as well as their families, and their enablers to identify and freeze the assets they hold in our jurisdictions. We will also engage other governments and work to detect and disrupt the movement of ill-gotten gains, and to deny these individuals the ability to hide their assets in jurisdictions across the world.

Finally, we will step up or coordination against disinformation and other forms of hybrid warfare.

26.02.2022 - 17:55 [ Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine / Twitter ]

Call with my French counterpart @JY_LeDrian . France supports banning Russia from SWIFT. I urged to immediately introduce the third package of EU sanctions to stop Russian invasion. France is also ready to supply weapons and military equipment to help Ukraine defend itself.

11.07.2019 - 19:50 [ Netzpolitk.org ]

Fahrplan für die Innere Sicherheit in der EU: Noch mehr Daten und neue Analysemethoden

Laut einem unveröffentlichten Diskussionspapier der rumänischen Regierung sollen das Mandat und die Fähigkeiten von Europol weiter verstärkt werden. Die Polizeiagentur wird demzufolge zu einem „Informationsknotenpunkt für die Strafverfolgung“ ausgebaut. Der Vorschlag erfolgte im Rahmen der EU-Ratspräsidentschaft, die Rumänien im ersten Halbjahr innehatte.

29.06.2019 - 10:13 [ Radio Utopie ]

Atomabkommen: INSTEX und STFI endlich einsatzfähig, erste Transaktionen

Die verbleibenden Vertragspartner des internationalen Atomabkommens (JCPOA) – die Regierungen von Russland, China, Iran, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Deutschland, sowie die „Europäische Union“ – haben es nach einem Dreivierteljahr endlich geschafft zwei Finanzgesellschaften zum Funktionieren zu bringen.

31.05.2019 - 12:25 [ Washington Post ]

Will the White House’s bullying of Europe over Iran work?

Those European efforts have centered on the creation of a payment channel with Iran, which in theory could allow European companies to keep trading with the country despite U.S. sanctions. The Paris-based Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) was formally registered by Britain, France and Germany more than three months ago and is expected to operate essentially like a clearinghouse for credit points.

31.05.2019 - 12:06 [ theAmericanConservative.com ]

Threatening Europe Over INSTEX Is Insane

That confirms a few things that we already suspected. First, it tells us that the U.S. is determined to cut off all legitimate trade with Iran, including trade in supposedly exempted humanitarian goods. They are actively working to cause the Iranian people as much misery as they can. Second, it tells us that the administration is willing to wreck its relations with some of its closest European allies to pursue their economic war against the Iranian people. U.S. interests and longstanding relationships with important allies are being sacrificed for the sake of a vindictive and outrageous policy of collective punishment against a population of more than eighty million people.

31.05.2019 - 11:45 [ TatyanaRozenblum ? (כחול לבן כמו כולנו, לא מפלגה) / Twitter ]

„Finally, he said that the EU countries’ special purpose vehicle – INSTEX, a mechanism designed to circumvent US sanctions on Iran – has been nearly useless to date“. @Jerusalem_Post

31.05.2019 - 11:39 [ Bloomberg ]

U.S. Warns Europe That Its Iran Workaround Could Face Sanctions

Sigal Mandelker, the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, signaled in a May 7 letter obtained by Bloomberg that Instex, the European vehicle to sustain trade with Tehran, and anyone associated with it could be barred from the U.S. financial system if it goes into effect.

31.05.2019 - 11:37 [ energy-reporters.com ]

Trump team threaten Europe with sanctions over Instex

Donald Trump’s staff have threatened sanctions against the financial body created by Germany, the UK and France to preserve trade with Iran in defiance of US trade barriers.

Sigal Mandelker of the US Treasury Department threatened Instex – the European body established to sustain trade with Iran – and anyone associated with it with exclusion from the US financial system.

31.05.2019 - 11:13 [ Tagesschau.de ]

US-Außenminister in Deutschland: Pompeos zweiter Versuch

Dabei gibt es viel zu besprechen und weiterhin gemeinsame Interessen. Eines davon: Den Iran abzuhalten, Atomwaffen zu bauen.

Die USA setzen dabei auf Härte. Den hält Außenminister Heiko Maas für falsch. Er will das Atomabkommen mit dem Iran retten und hat mit Blick auf die USA eine große Sorge:

28.12.2018 - 16:20 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

EU-weite Nutzung von Vorratsdaten bei Banken soll Finanzermittlungen erleichtern

Der Zoll, die Polizei und die Geheimdienste sollen aus den Kontoinformationen Rückschlüsse auf womöglich weitere verdächtige Personen ziehen und diese Erkenntnisse auch zur Gefahrenabwehr nutzen.

06.11.2018 - 06:07 [ Kurier.at ]

IS weiterhin mit Bankensystem verbunden: Trotz Sanktionen Zugang zum Finanzdienstleister Swift.

(3.März 2016) „Swift ist gemeinsam mit der für Swift zuständigen belgischen Aufsicht darum bemüht, dieses Risiko auf ein Minimum zu reduzieren“, zitierte das Magazin eine schriftliche Stellungnahme des Bundesfinanzministeriums. Konkret gehe es um die Filiale der Commercial Bank of Syria in der Islamistenhochburg Raqqa.

06.11.2018 - 06:05 [ Business Insider ]

Here‘s how ISIS still has access to the global financial system

(24.März 2015) Targeting the group‘s finances has therefore become one of the anti-ISIS coalition‘s five primary lines of effort. On March 19-20, the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Italy co-chaired the inaugural meeting of the Counter-ISIL Finance Group in Rome.

The first goal laid out in the group‘s action plan is to prevent the self-styled Islamic State from using „the international financial system, including unregulated money remitters.“

06.11.2018 - 05:58 [ ZDF ]

US-Sanktionen gegen den Iran – Wie wichtig ist Swift im internationalen Handel?

S.W.I.F.T. ist die Abkürzung für die „Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication“. Die Gesellschaft wurde im Jahr 1973 gegründet. Sie ist eine Genossenschaft von internationalen Banken, die mit Swift internationale Finanztransaktionen beschleunigen, vereinfachen und standardisieren wollten. Swift hat ihren Sitz in Belgien, sie unterliegt damit belgischem Recht und EU-Recht. Heute sind weltweit rund 11.000 Banken an die Gesellschaft angeschlossen – und zwar aus 210 verschiedenen Ländern.

06.11.2018 - 05:45 [ Heise.de ]

SWIFT kappt Irans Banken Zugang zu Zahlungsverkehrssystem

Wegen US-Sanktionen hat die internationale Bankenorganisation SWIFT iranische Geldinstitute von ihren Diensten ausgesperrt.

06.11.2018 - 05:36 [ New York Times ]

Important European Financial Firm Bows to Trump’s Iran Sanctions

An important cog in the global financial system has succumbed to pressure from the Trump administration and severed ties with Iranian banks.

Belgian-based Swift, whose messaging service connects more than 11,000 financial institutions as they transfer money around the world, said it was disconnecting from Iranian banks after the United States announced sanctions against 50 of the country’s financial firms on Monday.

06.11.2018 - 05:34 [ Financial Times ]

Swift to comply with US sanctions on Iran in blow to EU

The Belgian-based company said Monday it would suspend “certain Iranian banks’” access to its cross border-payment network — a signal that it will fall into line with a US list of targeted financial institutions due to be published imminently.

06.11.2018 - 05:31 [ Spiegel.de ]

Deutsche Wirtschaft zu Iran-Sanktionen: „Ein Affront der US-Regierung gegen Europa“

Die deutsche Exportwirtschaft beschwert sich über die US-Sanktionen gegen Iran. Im Ernstfall müssten die Geschäfte vielleicht ganz gestoppt werden.

04.11.2018 - 15:23 [ Washington Post ]

Israel’s Netanyahu warns Europe of possible attacks by Iran

(1.11.2018) Speaking to reporters Thursday after talks with his Bulgarian counterpart, Netanyahu said radical Islam is a threat to the world, and that Israel has recently revealed a number of Iranian plots to carry out attacks on European soil.

04.11.2018 - 15:12 [ jewishpress.com ]

Netanyahu Thanks Trump as US Sanctions on Iran Set to ‘Snap Back’ in Full at Midnight Sunday

(today)

The Trump administration announced Friday that its powerful sanctions would snap back against Iran, effective Sunday, on banking, oil, shipping and other economic sectors where the penalties were lifted by the Obama administration in 2015 as part of the JCPOA nuclear deal.

03.11.2018 - 18:26 [ Iran Wirtschaft ‏ / Twitter ]

#Iran: Das internationale Zahlungssystem #SWIFT wird vermutlich nicht von #US-#Iransanctions betroffen sein. SWIFT hat ein großes Rechenzentrum in den USA, ist aber in der #EU beheimatet und unterliegt EU-Recht:

03.11.2018 - 18:22 [ RT.com ]

US threatens to smack SWIFT with sanctions if it fails to cut off financial services to Iran

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has warned global financial messaging service SWIFT on Friday that it could be penalized if it doesn’t cut off financial services to entities and individuals doing business with Iran.