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Sanctions: Russia Launches Alternative Global Payment System To Replace SWIFT
Russian government has launched SPFS, an internally-developed global payments system which has been under development since 2014 to replace SWIFT in the wake of ban on Russia.
‘Russia has an internal replacement for SWIFT’, Russia’s central bank chief has said.
Outing Russia from SWIFT was a major blow to the Russian economy that effectively cut it off from the global payments infrastructure. Amid the flurry of economic sanctions against Russian banking system, the Russian ruble has plunged by roughly 30% to a record low against the U.S. dollar on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
On Monday, Elvira Nabiullina, the governor of Russia’s central bank, said the country’s payments infrastructure will continue to function despite the ban. In a Reuters report, Nabiullina stated the country’s internal System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS)–can “replace SWIFT international payments system internally.” Stressing the importance to support its banking clients, Nabiullina affirmed that Russia will “fulfill their obligations” on the SPFS system that has been in development since 2014.
It remains to be seen if Russia is able to implement a worthy replacement for SWIFT. Given only 23 foreign banks are connected to the SPFS, compared to 11,000 banking members in SWIFT, it will be challenging for Russia to enable a payments infrastructure that can meet all of its transactional demands.
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