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The SWIFT ban against some Russian banks is one of several international sanctions against the Russian regime imposed by the European Union and other western countries as a result of its invasion of Ukraine, aimed at weakening the country's economy to end the invasion by hindering Russian access to the SWIFT financial transaction processing system.
In 2015 and 2016, a series of cyberattacks using the SWIFT banking network were reported, resulting in the successful theft of millions of dollars. [1] [2] The attacks were perpetrated by a hacker group known as APT 38 [3] whose tactics, techniques and procedure overlap with the infamous Lazarus Group who are believed to be behind the Sony attacks.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), legally S.W.I.F.T. SC, is a cooperative established in 1973 in Belgium (French: Société Coopérative) and owned by the banks and other member firms that use its service. SWIFT provides the main messaging network through which international payments are initiated. [2]
The SWIFT code for its primary office is UNCRITMM: UNCR identifies Unicredit Banca; IT is the country code for Italy; MM is the code for Milan. Dah Sing Bank is a bank based in Hong Kong that has five branches in mainland China (primary mainland China branch in Shenzhen). The SWIFT code for the branch in Shanghai is DSBACNBXSHA.
SWIFT messages consist of five blocks of data including three headers, message content, and a trailer. Message types are crucial to identifying content. All SWIFT messages include the literal "MT" (message type/text [2]). This is followed by a three-digit number that denotes the message category, group and type. Consider the following two examples.
Relationship Management Application (RMA) is a service provided by SWIFT to manage the business relationships between financial institutions. [1]RMA operates by managing which message types are permitted to be exchanged between users of a SWIFT service: [1]
In October 2013 Inmarsat announced the launch of its new SwiftBroadband High Data Rate (HDR) streaming service for the aviation market which provides a guaranteed bandwidth (QoS) of est. 650 kbit/s. [14]
The subsidiary was created when JBS entered the U.S. market in 2007 with its purchase of Swift & Company. JBS USA is based in Greeley, Colorado . [ 1 ] Its competitors include Hormel Foods , Cargill , Smithfield Foods , National Beef , and Tyson Foods .