Can China's homegrown mechanism or some other alternative enable Russia to cushion the impact of being cut off from the world's biggest interbank payment messaging system?
Alternative settlement system lacks scope of Western counterpart
More than half the world’s cross-border, large payment transactions relied on SWIFT in 2021. © Reuters
Can China's homegrown mechanism or some other alternative enable Russia to cushion the impact of being cut off from the world's biggest interbank payment messaging system?