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Financial statecraft
Explore payments, reserve assets, development finance and financial restrictions.
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- Dollar-clearing denialInstrument
Dollar-clearing denial restricts a target's access to United States dollar payment and settlement through identified legal authorities, correspondent banks and payment systems. It can be severe because offshore dollar activity commonly depends on accounts...
- SWIFTInstitution
SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, is a Belgian member-owned cooperative that provides secure, standardised financial messaging. It is not a bank, payment system or settlement institution. SWIFT transmits instructions...
- Central-bank reserve immobilisation and confiscationConcept
Central-bank reserve immobilisation and confiscation are distinct forms of control over foreign official assets. Preventing transactions, segregating cash, using extraordinary revenues, securing a loan and transferring title to principal are separate...
- EuroclearInstitution
Euroclear is a regulated financial-market-infrastructure group providing securities settlement, custody, asset servicing, funds services and collateral management. Its Belgian international central securities depository, Euroclear Bank, implements binding...
- Development finance as statecraftInstrument
Development finance as statecraft is the strategically directed provision or mobilisation of public finance for infrastructure or development to pursue access, influence, integration, standards or another foreign-policy objective. Development finance does...
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