In the context of international banking transactions what is the full form of SWIFT?

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  1. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
  2. Society for Wireless International Financial Transactions
  3. Society for Worldwide International Financial Telecommunication
  4. Society for Worldwide International Financial Transactions

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Option 1 : Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
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The correct answer is option 1, i.e. Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.

  • SWIFT stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.
  • SWIFT is a vast messaging network used by banks and other financial institutions to quickly, accurately, and securely send and receive information, such as money transfer instructions.
  • At its core, SWIFT is basically just a bank-to-bank messaging system.
  • It supplies a standardized language that institutions use to communicate payment instructions and other info to each other.
  • SWIFT assigns each financial organization a unique code that has either eight characters or 11 characters.
  • The code is interchangeably called the bank identifier code (BIC), SWIFT code, SWIFT ID, or ISO 9362 code.
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