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"Excluir Rússia do sistema Swift equivale a iniciar uma guerra".

Andrei Kostin, chief executive of Russia’s second-largest bank VTB, warned Friday that keeping his country from the Swift banking payment system would be tantamount to “war”. The possibility that Russia might be locked out of Swift has set off alarm bells in Moscow’s financial community as Russia’s banks rely heavily on the Belgium-based payments system for both domestic and international payments. When the notion first surfaced in 2014, it was shelved as too punitive and only to be considered as a nuclear option.

 “If there is no Swift, there is no banking . . . relationship, it means that the countries are on the verge of war, or they are definitely in a cold war,” Kostin noted. “The next day, the Russian and American ambassadors would have to leave the capitals,” he added. Mr Kostin’s comment indicated a Russian financial class that is increasingly feeling under threat and angered. “The more you press Russia, I do not think the situation will change. We have already created a domestic alternative to the Swift system . . . and we need to create alternatives internationally.” Kostin further noted that Russia and its neighbor to the east China are currently working together to develop their own platform as an alternative to Swift that would remain outside western influence. Igor Shuvalov, Russia’s deputy prime minister, echoed this theme. “We are developing our eastern vector,” Mr Shuvalov declared, noting that while Russia’s efforts with China predated the potentially looming Swift crisis, Russia’s ever increasing issues on the international stage certainly put the plan into over-drive.

"Se Ocidente cortar Rússia do sistema bancário Swift, nossa resposta será sem limites".

KHMELYOVO VILLAGE (Bryansk Region), January 27, (TASS) - Western countries’ threats to restrict Russia’s operations through the SWIFT international bank transaction system will prompt Russia’s counter-response without limits, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday. "We’ll watch developments and if such decisions are made, I want to note that our economic reaction and generally any other reaction will be without limits," he said.

In late August 2014, media reports said the UK had proposed banning Russia from the SWIFT network as part of an upcoming new round of sanctions against Moscow over its stance on developments in neighboring Ukraine. However, this proposal was not supported by the EU countries at the time. After recent shelling of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol some western countries again started calling to disconnect Russia from SWIFT. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) transmits 1.8 billion transactions a year, remitting payment orders worth $6 trillion a day. The system comprises over 10,000 financial organizations from 210 countries. Under the SWIFT charter, groups of members and users are set up in each country covered by the system. In Russia, these groups are united in the RosSWIFT association.
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Sob ataque, Rússia prepara seu próprio sistema Swift, maio 2015.

Russia intends to have its own international inter-bank system up and running by May 2015. The Central of Russia says it needs to speed up preparations for its version of SWIFT in case of possible ”challenges” from the West. "Given the challenges, Bank of Russia is creating its own system for transmitting financial messaging... It’s time to hurry up, so in the next few months we will have certain work done.

The entire project for transmitting financial messages will be completed in May 2015," said Ramilya Kanafina, deputy head of the national payment system department at the Central Bank of Russia (CBR). Calls not to use the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) system in Russian banks began to grow as relations between Russia and the West deteriorated over sanctions. So far, SWIFT says despite pressure from some Western countries to join the anti-Russian sanctions, it has no intention of doing so. According to Itar-Tass, Russia and China are discussing setting up a system of interbank transactions which will become an analogue to International banking transaction system SWIFT, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov told PRIME on Wednesday after negotiations in Beijing.

Já prepara com China um Swift comum: desviar ataque dos EUA.

"Yes, we have discussed and we have approved this idea," he said. But wait: wasn't it the UK's desire to force Russia out of SWIFT just two weeks ago? Why yes, and the fact that Russia is happy to do so, and on its own terms, once again shows just who has all the leverage, and who really needs, or rather doesn't, the US Dollar. More from Tass: Russian authorities wanted to decrease the financial market’s dependence on SWIFT since the introduction of the first U.S. sanctions, when international payment systems Visa and MasterCard denied services to some Russian banks owned by blacklisted individuals. According to Shuvalov, Russia has been also discussing establishment of an independent ratings agency with China. Concrete proposals will be made by the end of 2014, he said. As regards China’s payment system UnionPay cooperation with the yet-to-be-established Russian national payment system, Shuvalov said that UnionPay is ready for a full-scale collaboration and will provide all infrastructural capacities for that.