{"id":27306,"date":"2025-05-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=27306"},"modified":"2025-05-02T12:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:22:56","slug":"swift-use-abuse-alphanumeric-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/swift-use-abuse-alphanumeric-code\/","title":{"rendered":"SWIFT: use and abuse of an alphanumeric code"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"component text\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n\n\n    <div class=\"row\">\n      <div class=\"col  col-lg-8  offset-lg-2\">\n        <h3><b>The conflict in Ukraine is the latest example of the growing importance of economic sanctions as instruments of coercion in international geopolitical relations. We analyse how SWIFT, a communication protocol between banks, has become a strategic weapon of the West.<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The origin of telecommunications between global banking networks dates back to the mid-19th century, when the newly developed electric telegraph enabled more agile communications between stock markets. <\/span><b>The telegraph established a continuous, near real-time trading system that reduced the differences between the prices of securities in markets separated by large geographical distances.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1872, <\/span><b>Western Union used its existing telegraph network to launch the first widely used wire transfer service<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A sender paid money to a telegraph office, and the operator transmitted a message to allow the transfer of money to another office, which was verified by passwords and code books so that the funds were released to a recipient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the early 20th century, <\/span><b>the telegraph was slowly replaced by teletype or telex machines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a system developed by Germany that took advantage of telegraph lines and allowed users to write a message somewhere and have it printed on the other side of the world. Although telex provided the banking sector with a basic platform for business, and an operational medium through which they could begin to expand, the need to ensure that messages were secure and accurate added much complexity to the system, which soon found itself unable to cope with the pressures of an increasingly globalised financial world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the increase in transactions made it clear that <\/span><b>the limits of this communication system were a constraint on the expansion of the banking business<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, banks, especially European banks, decided to explore other options. A decision spurred by a subsidiary of the American bank, the First National City Bank (FNCB), which wanted to force other banks to use its proprietary telex system. This ultimatum horrified the European banks, which saw a change from a system based on cooperation between rivals to a monopoly at the hands of the American partner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The banks of 15 countries created a private company, SWIFT,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunication, based in Brussels and run as a global cooperative enterprise. SWIFT simplified procedures and minimised errors by using a standardised messaging format that was adopted globally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Communication networks and state coercion<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tug-of-war between the new and old continents over control of a global interbank communications system highlighted a phenomenon that had already been seen with the emergence of the telegraph during colonial times. <\/span><b>While these communication systems were not created with geopolitics in mind, it was inevitable that the big players in the global economy would use them as tools to control, spy on, and punish other states<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> competing for the same interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fact that is not without irony in the case of <\/span><b>SWIFT, created by Europe to maintain its sovereignty vis-\u00e0-vis the United States, but which has ultimately been unable to resist obeying Washington&#8217;s orders<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, even when they run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/eu-mechanism-for-trade-with-iran-now-operational\/a-49407662\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">counter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to European interests, as happened when President Donald Trump unilaterally abandoned the Iran nuclear deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political scientists Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman define this as &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.es\/books\/about\/The_Uses_and_Abuses_of_Weaponized_Interd.html?id=R7_1DwAAQBAJ&amp;source=kp_book_description&amp;redir_esc=y\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">weaponised interdependence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;. As for SWIFT, they explain: &#8220;In this world, the <\/span><b>networks that enable global interdependence no longer serve as neutral means of transmitting information or money. Instead, they are becoming the power projection tools of large states<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The use of sanctions by the US government, against enemies and allies, purely for economic and geopolitical interests, did not begin with the administration of President Donald Trump, but it is true that <\/span><b>Trump made an unprecedented expansion of punitive <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/european-companies-back-out-of-nord-stream-2-us-report\/a-56658814\"><b>economic<\/b><\/a><b> measures to promote his administration&#8217;s agenda<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. An abuse of a position of privilege that initially yields good results, but is counterproductive in the long run when other states question alliances with the United States, and seek alternatives to monetary tools linked to the hegemonic power of this country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Alternative systems and cryptocurrencies<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest economic <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccma.cat\/324\/la-ue-augmenta-les-sancions-a-russia-exclou-bancs-russos-de-les-transaccions-internacionals\/noticia\/3148688\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sanctions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against Russia, and the exclusion of some of its banks from the SWIFT system, follow the same trend of recent years, and only consolidate the efforts of China, Russia, and even the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4208739-europes-alternative-to-swift-another-nail-in-dollars-coffin\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">European Union<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to seek alternative systems that can shield their economies. <\/span><b>A new blow to the system that could trigger a chain reaction of change.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, Russia launched the <\/span><b>Financial Messaging System of the Bank of Russia (<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbr.ru\/eng\/Psystem\/fin_msg_transfer_system\/\"><b>SPFS<\/b><\/a><b>), equivalent to SWIFT<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and in 2015, <\/span><b>China launched a similar system called The Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3168684\/what-chinas-swift-equivalent-and-could-it-help-beijing-reduce\"><b>CIPS<\/b><\/a><b>)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Two alternative systems that are still far from being able to fully replace SWIFT, but which at least help to reduce the effectiveness of the possible sanctions imposed on banks in these two countries to exclude them from the interbank communication protocol established by Western banks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, <\/span><b>the blockchain-based cryptocurrency revolution is another tool that countries such as North Korea and Iran have already used to circumvent economic sanctions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the exclusion of their banks from the SWIFT ecosystem. The digital <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2020\/10\/19\/digital-ruble-could-be-tool-against-sanctions-bank-of-russia-says\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rouble<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is just one of several digital tools through which the Russian government can boost bilateral trade with allied countries, as China has already done with the digital yuan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, the use of economic sanctions will undoubtedly have a significant impact on Russia&#8217;s economy, and to a lesser extent on that of the European Union. Even so, it is also clear that <\/span><b>the abuse of this tool of persuasion or punishment is reducing its effectiveness and promoting the creation of alternative systems,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which are ultimately inevitable in a multipolar global geopolitical scenario, which is no longer content to be subject to the impositions and interests of a single country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>11Onze is the community fintech of Catalonia. 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