Articles Tagged “nuclear energy”

  • SWIFT Pressured to Ban Iran Over Nuclear Ambitions

    by Ralph E. Stone on Feb 22, 2012 | 2 Comments

    SWIFT is the financial equivalent of the United Nations. It facilitates the bulk of the world’s cross-border payments. The member-owned cooperative has been described as the ‘glue’ of the global banking system with the value of daily payments using SWIFT estimated at more than $6 trillion. SWIFT is vital to international money flows, exchanging an average 18 million payment messages per day between banks and other financial institutions in 210 countries.

    Posted in Opinion, Politics