A Putin aide has said that Russia plans to “get rid of” SWIFT

According to him, “partners from Turkey and China” will help in this.

The Russian authorities are working on abandoning the SWIFT international system for transferring financial messages. This was stated by Maxim Oreshkin, assistant to the Russian president for economic affairs, Meduza reports.

“With SWIFT, it is very simple: we will make it so that it will not be necessary. I have already said that, this is actually a key task… We are now concentrating on making external economic activity as comfortable as possible,” said Oreshkin.

According to him, starting next week, the Russian authorities plan to meet with partners from Turkey to discuss “how to set up payments”.

Putin's aide also added that “other innovative ideas, which can fundamentally change the situation”. , including Sberbank, VTB, Rosselkhozbank, Otkritie and Rossiya.

Since 2014, the Bank of Russia's Financial Message Transfer System has been operating in the Russian Federation for internal financial transfers. The system was created after talks began about disconnecting Russia from SWIFT due to the invasion of the Russian Federation in eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.

SWIFT is actually a messenger in which financiers around the world exchange payment instructions, confirmations of agreements and other financial documentation . What are the consequences of disconnecting the Russian Federation from SWIFT for Russians, read in our material.

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Based on materials: ZN.ua

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