Another concern over a U.S.-domiciled global LEI organization may be related to American regulators who gained access to SWIFT message traffic in the anti-terrorism investigations and succeeded, with European Union action, in getting SWIFT to cut Iranian banks from using the interbank network.

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The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or Swift, is a worldwide financial messaging network to facilitate the interbank transfer of funds.

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