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Yuan overtakes Yen in share of SWIFT transactions

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Chinese currency, the yuan, has overtaken the Japanese yen to become the fourth most used currency in international payments via the SWIFT system. Its share of the market has reached 4.7%, almost twice as much as last year. However, the data does not take into account the Rus...

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JPMorgan: de-dollarization will go a different way

By Sergey Manukov

The biggest threat to America from de-dollarization, according to JPMorgan, is not so much the appearance of a competitor's currency, but the loss of Washington's main weapon with which it fought economic and financial crises in the past. The dollar helped Western central banks u...

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Dollar trade on SWIFT increases as SWIFT share of Global transactions decreases

By Anna Koroleva

In July 2023, the share of the dollar in international settlements, according to the Swift system, rose to a record 46.5%. However, as experts note, the share of settlements going through Swift itself is noticeably decreasing, so that its statistics no longer reflect the entire tu...

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