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Global Financial Service Disruptions
SWIFT (selected Russian banks)
payment network · RU · Europe
Regulatory or legalStatus: unknownTier 1Severity 5 of 5Evidence confidence: mediumAnalyst-verified
Days after the February 2022 sanctions announcements, European states agreed to expel many Russian banks from SWIFT, with access limited so Russia could still pay for gas. Exact bank list and effective date were not retrieved in this lane (date left null rather than assumed).
- First disruption
- unknown
- First public signal
- unknown
- Acknowledged
- unknown
- Restored
- not yet
- Duration
- not established
- DFX first recorded
- Nov 5 14:58 UTC
What was restricted
cross borderwireScope: multi institution
Cross-border messaging and payments cut for named Russian banks.
Cause, kept in separate layers
- What the institution said
- EU and allied sanctions expelling many Russian banks from SWIFT, with carve-outs for gas payments
- DFX classification
- Regulatory or legal (cyber: unconfirmed)
- Conflicting reports
- Effective date not confirmed from a retrieved source.
Evidence
- Wikipedia · accessed 2026-11-05