From: "Geo" 

"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:449dcb1a{at}w3.nls.net...

> compel an international banking consortium to open its records. The
> Brussels-based cooperative, known as the Society for Worldwide Interbank
> Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, links about 7,800 banks and
> brokerages and handles billions of transactions a year.

Actually another article I read says they don't actually handle any
transactions, they just capture the information and store it, for what
purpose was unclear.

Geo.

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