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Comment: Passing the buck

The current outcry over American intelligence officials' access to private information linked to international money transfers has raised some thorny issues over who regulates the international messaging and financial telecommunications group, SWIFT.

COMMENT BY CENTRALBANKNEWS

The furore started when the New York Times broke a story on 22 June detailing how US anti-terrorism experts pore over the databases of the SWIFT. The databases contain personal information such as the names, branch and

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