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The SWIFT Affair

Swiss Banking Secrecy and the Fight against Terrorist Financing
de Johannes Köppel
The SWIFT Affair – Johannes Köppel
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The story broke in 2006: Since 9/11, US intelligence services have had access to practically any international money transfer data by infiltrating the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) network. Banks worldwide transfer money orders and personal customer data through this network. While the surveillance was all-embracing in 2001, it was gradually limited over the course of the last few years. Revealed by the New York Times, the SWIFT affair has had global as well as national implications. While this dissertation first examines the international dimension of the SWIFT surveillance, the analysis mainly focuses on the national repercussions for Switzerland.

Arditi Prize 2010 in International Affairs.

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Collection :
eCahiers
Mots clés :
banques suisses, secret bancaire, protection de la vie privée, blanchiment d'argent, finance internationale, terrorisme
Theme :
Swiss banking, banking secrecy, privacy protection, money laundering, international finance, terrorism
Lieux :
Suisse
Geographic keywords :
Switzerland
Disciplines :
économie internationale
Discipline :
international economics
Mis en ligne en :
septembre 2011
ISBN :
978-2-940415-72-4

À propos de l'auteur

  • Johannes Köppel holds a master in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and has studied Economic History in Geneva and Moscow. He was recently awarded with the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs and has among others worked for the French hedge fund HDF International SA, General Motors and the Swiss Foreign Ministry. In his current position as a delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Johannes Köppel is visiting political prisoners in Uzbekistan.