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As of 2018, around half of all high-value cross-border payments worldwide used the Swift network, [3] and in 2015, Swift linked more than 11,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries and territories, who were exchanging an average of over 32 million messages per day (compared to an average of 2.4 million daily messages in 1995). [4]
SWIFT message types are the format or schema used to send messages to financial institutions on the SWIFT network. The original message types were developed by SWIFT and a subset was retrospectively made into an ISO standard, ISO 15022. In many instances, SWIFT message types between custodians follow the ISO standard. [1]
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.
There are over 7,500 "live" codes (for partners actively connected to the SWIFT network) and an estimated 10,000 additional BIC codes which can be used for manual transactions. 2009 version is now replaced by the latest edition (ISO 9362:2014 dated 2014-12-01).
The MT202 COV instruction then works across the correspondent banking network, instructing funds to move across intermediate banks. The MT202 is the original standard message format. It does not contain both the origination and destination FI /account information.
It uses the SWIFT industry standard for syntax in financial messages. Messages formatted to SWIFT standards can be read and processed by many well-known financial processing systems, whether or not the message traveled over the SWIFT network. SWIFT cooperates with international organizations to define standards for message format and content.
MT940 is a specific SWIFT message type used by the SWIFT network to send and receive end-of-day bank account statements. [1]Message Type 940 is the SWIFT standard (Banking Communication Standard) for the electronic transmission of account statement data.
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.