I don’t know. The article quotes the Russian ambassador saying it needs to integrate with the banks and whatever systems are in place currently for each country, but that doesn’t necessarily mean SWIFT as well. But even if it’s a direct competitor, the possibility of future SWIFT integration has to be considered. I’d be surprised if they blanket never wanted it to happen.
Uh, security at multiple levels, dispute resolution, dealing with inaccurate floating point math, CAP theorem limitations, throughput… And those are just the challenges I can come up not having worked in the financial clearing domain.
No. You cannot just build one of these at a code jam, you cannot launch a startup to build one of these in a few months. It’s a system with one of the highest fidelity requirements outside of medical equipment. Even space technology is allowed to fail for being off by a little bit. Financial systems at scale are hella difficult.
There are lots of details left to hammer out. This is like an announcement that there will be a committee to commission a study to hire a contractor to change a light bulb. The process will likely take a while and may not complete at all.
Oh? Do you know details on how it’s going to work? All I can find is the BRICS Pay site with a very high level overview. They’re talking a big game, but as of now all that seems to be public is just talk.
Every indication that it’s going to work in style of Bancor, and it’s not a difficult thing to implement. It’s also very obvious that there is a huge incentive to create an alternative to SWIFT now with US being belligerent towards all the major countries that form BRICS. If you don’t understand that BRICS will have its own system of settlement in short order then you’re going to be in for quite the surprise.