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The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
Susan V. Scott and Markos Zachariadis
2013
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This book traces the history and development of a mutual organization in the financialsector called SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank FinancialTelecommunication. Over the last 40 years, SWIFT has served the financial servicessector as proprietary communications platform, provider of products and services,standards developer, and conference organizer (Sibos). Founded to create efficienciesby replacing telegram and telex (or “wires”) for international payments, SWIFT nowforms a core part of the financial services infrastructure. It is widely regarded as themost secure trusted third-party network in the world serving 212 countries and over10,000 banking organizations, securities institutions, and corporate customers.Through every phase of its development, SWIFT has maintained the status of industrycooperative, thus presenting an opportunity to study broader themes of globalizationand governance in the financial services sector.In this book the authors focus on how the design and current state of SWIFT wereinfluenced by its historical origins, presenting a comprehensive account in a succinctform which provides an informative guide to the history, structure, activities, andfuture challenges of this key international organization.This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in a wide range offields including IPE, comparative political economy, international economics, businessstudies, and business history.
This work is a translation of The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is a translation of this work.
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Keywords
- banking
- Computing & information technology
- Cooperative governance
- Economics, finance, business & management
- Finance
- Finance & accounting
- International Organization for Standardization
- network innovation
- Politics
- Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
- Standards
- SWIFT
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KF Finance and accounting::KFF Finance and the finance industry::KFFK Banking
- thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315849324web: https://www.routledge.com/The-Society-for-Worldwide-Interbank-Financial-Telecommunication-SWIFT/Scott-Zachariadis/p/book/9780415631648
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