Russia and China will create an analogue of SWIFT, which could lead to a significant weakening of the petrodollar
Now the Russian Federation and the PRC are discussing the creation of a new system of interbank transactions, which should become an analogue of the international SWIFT system.
“Yes, this idea was discussed and supported.”- Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said after the meeting in Beijing.
The publication provides a certificate explaining what a SWIFT system is:
SWIFT is a company created under Belgian law, and the founders of the company include more than 9 thousand banks from 209 countries (data for 2010). The head office is located in Brussels. SWIFT users are more than 10 thousand organizations, including about 1 thousand corporations.
Each bank included in the system has its own unique SWIFT code. To make a payment in Europe, it is enough to know the bank’s SWIFT code and the recipient’s IBAN code. More than 1 million remittances pass through SWIFT per day.
After the 11 events of September 2001, the CIA and the US Treasury Department got access to SWIFT information. Every year around SWIFT passes about 2,5 billion payment orders. "
Plans to reduce dependence on the financial market of SWIFT in Russia appeared after the first US sanctions, when Visa and MasterCard refused to work with some Russian banks.
According to the vice-premier, the Chinese payment system UnionPay, which will become a partner of the Russian payment system, is ready to cooperate and provide all the necessary infrastructure for this.
“But if with respect to the payment system it is clear what to do and how to move, then the system of mutual settlements, by analogy with SWIFT, is an idea that we all liked today, we put it forward, everyone is ready for it to be positive. Now we will begin to work it out. "- said Shuvalov.
That is, the Eurasian Economic Union will gradually begin to abandon the dollar. And the current US President Barack Obama will have a chance to enter history as head of state in which the dollar lost its former influence. According to the online publication "zerohedge.com", "the end of the hegemony of the dollar will undermine the status of the world reserve currency, and may lead to a rapid and uncontrollable collapse of the American empire."
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