What exactly is the SWIFT banking system? It allows financial institutions around the world to communicate quickly and efficiently. Seven Russian banks are being banned from the system.

IFSC codes of Syndicate Bank, which was merged with Canara Bank in April 2020, will change from July. The IFSC codes for erstwhile Syndicate Bank customers will be changed from July 1 this year.

Some financial analysts have likened ousting Russia from SWIFT as a “nuclear option,” and would be an unprecedented move against one of the world’s largest economies.

Some financial analysts have likened ousting Russia from SWIFT as a “nuclear option,” and would be an unprecedented move against one of the world’s largest economies.

The SWIFT system could be used in a sanction against Russia with the country being removed from the financial system. What is SWIFT and what effect would this have?

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The groundwork for a system of international payments that bypasses the sclerotic SWIFT network has been created. Now the banking industry needs to get behind the switch to blockchain-based payments.

Swift code to be discontinued Canara Bank also announced the discontinuation of the current swift code being used by the erstwhile Syndicate Bank customers for foreign exchange transactions.

A bank typically asks a customer, who wishes to undertake a cross-border transaction, about the receiving bank’s SWIFT code, or electronic address, without which money can’t be transferred.